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Eniro, Norway's largest search engine gets a new look.

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 media campaign throughout the year worth an estimated 2 million

New domain rules in Denmark. No more anonymity

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 quesries done for the ccTLD .dk domain. This is not

Danish Search Engine Jubii launches search results based on other users answers

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 the search queries are answered by other members or “experts”

New search engine and yellow page service launched in Denmark

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 rough translation): TV 2|Fredo is a search service for people

The search engine landscape in Denmark in 2006

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 Spray, now owned by Lycos). However, Jubii has become a

Hot new Search Engines launched in Norway

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 from when Yahoo bought Alltheweb. The most spectacular news is

Swedish Eniro buys Norwegian search engine Findexa for SEK 10.5 BIO.

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 Industri. Earlier Eniro stated that they are very much interested

Nordiske forskere får legat til at udvikle flersprogelig søgemaskine

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 søgemaskiner er endnu ikke gode nok til at vise resultater

Multilingual web search taking a step up in Scandinavia

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 the university research group to work (part time) on the