I just got a heads up regarding a planned new look and feel on Norway’s biggest search engine Eniro. The new design is cleaner and leaner and supposedly will give better Norwegian search results. Furthermore they are planning a huge … Read More
As per August 1st one can no longer keep their personal information secret in the DK-Hostmaster [The danish body responsible for handeling the .dk domain] database. Up until August anyone could choose to hide their personal information from the who-is … Read More
It seems the Danish search engine scene have gone beserck releasing new search services. Recently we reported the new search engine from Danish tv station TV2. Now search engine Jubii has recently launched a search service called Jubii iQ where … Read More
The Danish tv station TV2 has quietly launched a new search engine called TV2 Fredo. The search engine presumably offers contactinfo, website links(!), maps and a link to a gift certificate partner. TV2 describes the search engine as follows (my … Read More
Inspired by Kristjan’s post about Iceland, here is a short run down of the search engine landscape in Denmark. The search market in Denmark has historically, until the worldwide Google dominance, been driven by local directory Jubii (sold to Swedish … Read More
Kservik over at Threadwatch reports on the launch of no less than 3 new search engines in Norway. All the 3 new engines are all powered by the technology from Norwegian FAST Search & Transfer – the left over tech … Read More
Danish online media site Mediawatch reports today that the Swedish yellow page and search engine company Eniro is rumoured to be about to buy Norwegian search engine Findexa. Mediawatch quotes a financial analyst from Swedbank in the Swedish newspaper Dagens … Read More
Nordiske forskere har fået et legat på DKK 2,5 mio. fra Nordisk Ministerråd til at udvikle og forske i en søgemaskine (Tvärsök), som kan søge på tværs af de nordiske sprog, herunder dansk, svensk, norsk, finsk og islandsk. De eksisterende … Read More
A multilingual web search project has received a research grant of DKK 2.5 mio ~ 335,000 EUR to research the options of multilingual web search covering Scandinavian languages including Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic. Receiving the grant will enable … Read More
Congratulations on the deal between MIVA and Eniro. Thank you both for taking time out to talk to Multilingual Search and answer a few questions about the deal with MIVA and Eniro. RASMUS: A lot has happened with Espotting in … Read More
Norwegian news site Digi.no reports that Google have opened an office in Oslo, Norway. So far the office only employs one, Mr. Jan Grønbech. Grønbech is the former boss of ad giant DoubleCLick (Adlink). However Google employs another 3 people, … Read More
After closing their local sites 1.5 years ago, Yahoo has once again opened up to local users in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The local sites have a very similar look and feel to the US site, but one major difference … Read More
