58% are online in Germany
According to a recent study by ARD/ZDF Online, there are now 57.9% of Germans aged from 14 that are online (37.5 Million people). More pensioners and those unemployed have come online as broadband costs sink. The prognosis is for the upward trend to continue as more and more pensioners and unemployed find online access affordable. […]
Google Sitemaps now multilingual
The Inside Google Sitemaps blog has just announced that Google Sitemaps’ user interface and documentation are now available in ten additional languages. The newly added languages are: Brazilian Portuguese Dutch French German Italian Korean Russian Simplified Chinese Spanish Traditional Chinese Sitemap submisssion is not limited by the language of the site, as always. Source: Inside […]
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
Warning: Mass local language inbound links can damage your health
Google on their web site say there is almost nothing you can do to harm a website through the building of links from external sites. I unfortunately came across the reason they say almost recently. To a major extent they are right, even links from bad neighbourhoods will not harm you. The logic of course […]
Online advertising sales drooping for loans in Western Europe
Trade Doubler reports a drop in online advertising sales for loans in July
Miva researches launching pay per call in Germany
Miva is conducting research on it’s customer base in Germany to guage the level of interest in the roll out of its ‘pay per call’ service which is due to launch in the UK during September. With ‘pay per call’, the advertiser only pays for each call received – rather than for each mouse click. […]
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.
MIVA announces significant new channels in Germany
Miva has announced a deal with Quality Channel which means its sponsored links will be shown on www.spiegel.de; www.sueddeutsche.de and www.manager-magazin.de giving the network a signifcant and strategic boost in Germany. Spiegel has a wide reputation as the leading ‘serious’ German business weekly magazine. The deal also extends MIVA to www.f1total.com the German-speaking Forumla1 web […]
Web.de sale to United Media runs into problems in Germany
The sale of Web.de to United Internet has hit a snag with two shareholders objecting to the deal. The German federal monopolies office had already approved the sale – as had the extraordinary meeting of the company. The board announced the objections on Friday – but still expects the deal to go ahead. The sale […]
Opodo moves into Spanish
Big brand Opodo has moved into its ninth European market with the launch of www.opodo.es. Opodo is already well established in the UK, Germany and France – and already entered the Italian, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and Finnish markets in early 2005 through two acuqisitions – Eviaggi and Travellink. Reported by Travel Daily News