6 countries sign agreement to take European libraries online.
Reported by Austrian TV, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland and Hungary have signed an agreement to take national libraries online – in something of a re-buff for Google’s idea to do the same. The idea was born of European Commission President, Jose Manuel Durao Barroso and EU Council President Jean-Claude Juncker. Google’s US project encompasses […]
France and Germany combine to create European search engine?
European concern over the power and influence of the American search engines is well known. Now Jacques Chirac has announced that one of the new joint projects which the German and French governments will co-operate on, is the creation of a new European search engine. They’re trying to take a leaf out of Google’s book […]
Switzerland and Slovakia are Europe's biggest gainers in Economist's e-readiness rankings
Whilst Denmark retains the top spot as the leading e-ready nation even beating the US, Slovakia has moved up 5 places in the rankings from a lowly 39th last year to 34th in 2005 in the latest e-readiness rankings from the Economist. The Economist Intelligence Unit regularly publishes its e-readiness rankings which are a measure […]
Overture and Lycos increase cooperation
Overture and Lycos are to work closer together in Europe, it has been disclosed. Following an agreement which is to run for several years into the future, Lycos will link its portal more closely with Overture in Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands using the content match system.
Higher levels of local search in Germany than the UK or France
Volker Gläser, search director for Yahoo Deutschland, says that local search is more significant in Germany than the UK or France sometimes reaching levels as high as 30% of all searches. He puts this down largely to the division of the country into “Länder”. In February, Yahoo launched in beta a local search facility across […]
Time spent online is increasing in France, Italy, UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and Germany
Nielsen//NetRatings global netview analysis shows significant year-on-year increases in the number of hours per month spent online in all European countries monitored. Outside Europe, Hong Hong achieved the highest increase of 25% – whilst the US dropped. Most impressive are the figures for France (19%) and Italy (15%) where web users have significantly increased their […]
February 2005 home use increases in UK, France and Germany
According to Nielsen//NetRatings, active home use of the internet increased quite dramatically in the UK in February2005 to 11% when compared with November 2004 – France and Germany saw smaller increases of 1.6% and 1.2% respectively whilst Sweden dropped by almost 3%.
Home internet use reaches 61% in Germany
According to German survey organisation Wahlen Online, the number of internet users at home has grown to 61% in the last quarter – a relatively small increase over the previous quarter. Around 34% of the survey respondents access the internet through broadband or DSL whilst 34% are using ISDN – leaving just 26% of German […]