Mirago opens its Swedish pay per click engine to advertisers
Mirago chose to launch its new advertising network in Sweden at the Search Engine Strategies conference in Stockholm where the first advertisers were formally signed up to advertise. Mirago is a UK-based pay per click search engine and has been building indexes throughout Europe over the last months. Advertisers targeting Sweden now have access to […]
Berlin: Travelocity says travel consolidation will cut search engine revenues
Speaking at the eyefortravel Sales and Marketing in Travel Europe conference in Berlin, Jan Oetjen, Travelocity’s managing director Germany, said that the search engine revenues would be cut following the likely consolidation in the travel industry. “We all know that travel is a major buyer for the search engines, consolidation would bring down the costs […]
Vertical search engine for agriculture launched in Austria
Agrarmarkt Austria, Berglandmilch, Lebensministerium, Raiffeisen Ware Austria and Telekom Austria have combined their forces to create a vertical search engine for Austrian agriculture. Called Agrarinfo, the search facility currently has 7,000 links to agricultural sites and 3000 user addresses. Behind the new engine lie the Austria food and agriculture ministeries, Austria’s leading telecoms company, a […]
25% of Belgian companies may switch to .EU domain
Proximedia of Belgium is predicting that 25% of Belgian companies are likely to switch to using a .be domain name. European businesses abuzz over ‘.eu’ domain names – INQ7.net
Online advertising sales drooping for loans in Western Europe
Trade Doubler reports a drop in online advertising sales for loans in July
Firefox browser use expands rapidly in Europe
XiTimonitor has published a study showing that Firefox is truly taking off with European audiences. Norway and Portugal have been the fastest growers in the last with 19% and 15% respectively. Five eastern European countries score for the first time – Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Ukraine and Slovakia. Top scorers are Finland, Germany and Poland.
Worldwide broadband penetration shows Netherlands romping ahead in Europe
The far east still heads the league table of most broadband connected countries with South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan all in the top 6. The far east will overtake North America and Europe in the next few years for ‘connected households’, reports eMarketer. Intriguingly Canada and four European countries help to beat the […]
German search engine Web.de to be bought by United Internet
Web.de signed up to an acquistion by United Internet on Friday for 200 million Euros and a 5.8% shareholding in United Internet. The deal can’t go ahead until it’s been approved by the German monopolies office – it also still requires the approval of the Web.de annual general meeting. Report by Austrian TV’s Futurezone site. […]
Ask Jeeves to conquer Western Europe!
CEO of Ask Jeeves has revealed to Reuters plans to roll out the butler throughout western Europe. Following the IAC acquisition, Ask certainly has more capital at its disposal so it is not surprising to read speculation of a buy-out of Excite Italia from Tiscali, and Spanish expansion. Where next? The biggest single language web […]
37% of Austrians use the internet almost daily
The Austrian Internet Monitor (AIM) has published its 2005 first quarter figures for use of the internet in Austria with further figures confirming the continuing growth in use of the web. This latest report particuarly reinforces the point that, as the internet becomes more accessible, the degree of daily use also increases with 37% of […]