Over 90% of the Icelandic nation uses the Internet
Statistics Iceland has published the results of its seventh survey on the use of ICT and the Internet by Icelandic households and individuals. The survey was conducted earlier this year and shows how the vast majority of Icelandic households have one or more computers and access to the Internet. In 2008, 92% of the households […]
Inflected languages and Google
Google starting to deal in a proper way with inflected languages such as Icelandic by stripping away the grammar. Icelandic users have had to put up with the search engine’s illiteracy by entering their searches in various cases, numbers, genders, tenses and then do it all over again with the definite article and so on. […]
Google misses out on translations
The world’s largest search engine misses out on localization, how? Spelling error, I’m I feeling lucky button was changed to “Freysta gæfunnar”, the problem is that there is no y in freysta so the search engine that has 50% of the Icelandic population searching is greeting the Icelandic nation with a spelling error! Pls. Google […]
Internet marketing and advertising conference in Iceland
The annual Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference and Expo (RIMC) will be taking place on Friday 8th February at the Hilton Nordica in Reykjavik, Iceland. The conference focuses on Internet marketing and advertising, and the possibilities created by employing a structured promotional approach and focused advertising campaigns. Speakers include international and Icelandic experts in media and […]
Microsoft wants to buy Norwegian Fast for 6,6 billion NOK!
Microsoft have placed a bidding for the Norwegian search company Fast. The amount is 6,6 billion NOK which is about 835 000 000 Euro! Their plan is to integrate Fast technology into Sharepoint server: They want to keep the research team and says it should be a great effort for Microsoft in Europe. The biggest […]
24 European states go borderless under Schengen
The Schengen agreement has been extended from 15 countries to 24 giving a wider borderless Europe with no internal border controls or checks and an open market of over 400 million people. Coming into force on the 21st December, the Schengen agreement makes physical inter-trade between bordering countries easier to manage for marketers. As Europe […]
bott.is domain number 20,000 in Iceland
On the 29th of November this year active domain number 20,000 became real in Iceland. The twist to this is that the 29th of November 2007 is very close to the 20 year birthday of the Internet in Iceland. The year was 1987, late fall, when the father of the Internet in Iceland, Maríus Ólafsson, […]
iGoogle in 13 new languages
13 may be a fatal number, but obviously not at Google. Announcment on the Official Google Blog says that iGoogle has been localized for 13 new languages. Users speaking – Arabic – Bulgarian – Catalian – Croatian – Icelandic – Indonesian – Latvian – Lithuanian – Malay – Serbian – Slovak – Slovenian and Tagalog […]
EURid suspends 10,000 .EU names squatted in China
The .EU domain registrar management organisation, EURid has suspended 10,000 EU domain names which have been apparently legally registered by a Chinese woman – reports out-law. EURid has the power to remove the domain names from the woman – but has said that it would prefer a court to do it. According to reports, the […]
What is happening to ASK in Europe? I must ask!
Recent studies have shown that in Germany Google leads with a market share of 88.5% (I though Google had a foothold in the UK with around 79%). Yahoo has just over 3%, followed by the only local engine, ISP T-Online with 2.2%. Others on the list with just under 1.5% are MSN and AOL. Most […]