Local China search engine under development says Ask’s Barry Diller
Barry Diller launched the new look Butler-less Ask at the Search Engine Strategies show in New York revealing that Ask has a China-based R & D team working on a local search engine for China. He also said that engines trading locally are businesses and have to abide by local laws. In a talk directed […]
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 […]
Matt Cutts: bmw.de removed from the Google index
On January 11th, Matt Cutts warned us about Google’s upcoming efforts to clean up it’s indices of Spam on an international level. Can’t say there was no warning. On February 4th, it happened and it happened BIG. According to Matt Cutts, of Google, the bmw.de website has been removed from the Google index for a […]
Germany – the largest e-commerce market in western Europe – BIGGER than China!
Germany is the largest e-commerce market in western Europe – and the third economy in the world after only the US and Japan and ahead of China, reminds eMarketer author James Belcher in Germany Online – their latest report. Key findings in the report are that online penetration is over 50% for every age group […]
Ask Jeeves finally gets serious in the European market by launching in Germany
Ask Jeeves has finally launched in Germany with a German version.. Since it’s acquisition by IAC and the commitment of the company to expand multilingually and worldwide – this has been an expected and welcome move. Multilingual Search announced the launch of Ask in Spain and the acquisition of Excite Italia – the addition of […]
.eu domain registrations lag behind in Spain
As Nick Wilsdon reported, the .eu domain has been available since December 7th. But it looks like Spanish companies have showed little interest for the all European domain. The day registration opened to registered trademark owners, had little impact on Spain. So far, there are only 5,000 .eu domains registered out of Spain, while Germany […]
Anti-Google protest from German authors
German authors have mounted a protest against Google’s mass digitization of the world’s books for their http://print.google.com project. Members of the German main association of authors are in uproar claiming books are being digitized by Google without their authorization. Google claims the digitization of books will in fact encourage sales. Not so, says Wilfried F. […]
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 […]
MSN Search not bothered about Germany?
I manage to get back to my homeland (England) occasionally on business and now and then get across the pond to the USA for conferences etc. Each time I go there, I normally catch on the Hotel television an advertisement for MSN Search or billboard or see in newspapers advertisements for the now not so […]