On the Picnic event I spoke to Nils Rooijmans who was enthusiastic about the new search core search engine ilse has been using. Ilse Media took a licence on the French search technology Exalead to give better search results orientated on the Netherlands. A beta version is now available online
The new numbers of the Dutch National Search Engine Monitor (research 1.379 Dutch people) provided by search engine marketing company Checkit and RM Interactive show that Google still the most used search engine. Sometimes used Google 96% (+1) Ilse 20% (-2) Live.nl 8% (-5) Yahoo! 8% (+3) Lycos 4% (=0)
NYT: A court ordered Google to remove on Monday all links to French- and German-language newspaper reports published in Belgium after an association of local publishers won a case that accused the company of violating the country’s copyright laws. The legal action is the most recent example of the news
Reuters reports that the Dutch farmer dating site (supported by the FNV Union) has lost their court case in Amsterdam. The judge ruled that the keywords (in broadmatching) “farm” and “date” were too general. The combination (Farm-date, Farmdate etc.) however can be protected so there is no harm for the
Nijmegen, 5 April 2006 – Search Engine Mediabureau Checkit (http://www.checkit.nl) has in cooperation with Tilburg University conducted research on the online findability for search engines of the 100 largest advertisers in the Netherlands: 68% of the websites cannot be easily found by search engines. The complete Findability Top 100 can
Search Engine Mediabureau Checkit presents with RM Interactive the results of the National Search Engine Monitor. A research under 1.297 Dutch people. Here the date of who knows the Search Engine by name, who uses a particulier Search Engine and which one is favorate: Which Engine do you know? Google
According to news on SEW is Google currently testing a feature which we know from the Dutch Search Engine Zoeken.nl as keyword-clustering. Google offers this new tool as a “quick result”. We have already seem this tool at Google Base but this is the first time that it is applied
Microsoft’s grand plans to provide free software and services over the internet are predicated on generating ad revenue via adCenter (still in beta) to catch up with Google and Yahoo by offering what they don’t – ads targeted by gender, age, ZIP code, time of ad delivery and so on
The first Google offline content ads appeared in the ‘Sun-Times’, as reported by the Chicago Times on 12 December. They have closed a deal which allows them to fill a column on the right with 15 positions. They even seem to be relevant too!
In the Netherlands are the top 10 websites of 2005 mostley Search Search and Search: 1. Google 2. Startpagina (Directory) 3. Msn.nl 4. Markplaats (Search too?) 5. Detelefoongids.nl (people search) 6. MSN.com 8. Speuders (Search too?) 10. eBay (Search too?)