Rush for .EU begins "most important top level domain ever"
The BBC reports on the opening of the doors of EurID to allcomers trying to register one of the valuable .EU domains – now on a first come first served basis. Already 300,000 have used the sunrise period to register a domain where a previous claim existed – such as a trademark or trading history. […]
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” as Jubii labels them. The […]
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 that wants to shop goods, […]
UK behind Germany, France and the Netherlands on .eu applications
The number of applications for .eu domain names seems to be somewhat tardy in the UK, according to the current figures from Eurid – where Germany – not surprisingly – is way in the lead with 81,000 applications, followed by the Netherlands with 44,000, France at 29,000 and the UK trailing the leading group with […]
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 shade of itself and now […]
Regional search engines losing share in Scandinavia, says Websidestory
At Search Engine Strategies Stockholm, Websidestory Regional Account Manager, Nordic Fulton Yancy published figures showing the tracking company’s view on search engine shares in Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden drawing the conclusion that the major local engines are losing ground to the global players. The figures were based on September 95 and were based on […]
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 by far at Startsiden, where […]
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 […]
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 in buying up other search […]
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 […]