Google's desktop tool goes multilingual
The Google blog has announced that the desktop search tool is now available in a wider range of languages comprising of French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Japanese and Korean. Google Blog: Speaking of search
Belgian web connections too expensive, says Belgian study
Belgian web connections are more expensive than those in the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, France, the UK, Germany and Italy, says a study by Belga’s Test Achat. Reported by Expatica
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 […]
Big Clique African-American search engine launches in 17 languages
Mr. Olu, the Will Smith of search engines, has created a new search engine for the world – Big Clique – in fact covering 17 languages from day one an amazingly ambitious undertaking! Big Clique claims to offer ‘Just search…’ and nothing else. The choice of languages is intriguing comprising English, Italian, German, Spanish, Finnish, […]
Seekport continues its European roll-out with launch in the UK
The German search engine Seekport has moved its UK search engine out of Beta. Seekport launched in the UK in December and claims to offer more UK-oriented results – partly thanks to a team of editors who quality check the engine’s results. Testing of the algorithm suggests that it operates quite differently to other 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 […]
Thrifty.com goes into French, German and Spanish
American car hire organisation, Thrifty.com has translated its site into French, German and Spanish – a sign that more of the larger American travel organisations are recognising the need to speak the language of their customers. Unfortunately, 75% of the page titles remain in English, as do the keywords and page descriptions so they’ve left […]
The very first .eu domain name goes live
The very first .eu domain has gone live on the web today – but don’t get your cheque books out yet – this is the registration organisation itself – EURid at www.eurid.eu – which is responsible for managing the new European top level domain name. Nevertheless, a significant milestone has been passed with the first […]
One third of all Germans now shop online, says new study
The Enigma Gfk research group in Wiesbaden has released figures which show that now more than one third of all Germans buy online. During the last year the number has grown by 15% to 23 million which is more than one third of the total population over 14 years. Of web users, those who actually […]