Conferences in Sweden this Autumn
There will be a lot of activity around web and search in Sweden this autumn. Below I list all the conferences that are coming up and hope to see you on some of them! I will update list if I find out of more as we move along… September Webanalytics wednesday Stockholm 11-Sep http://www.webanalyticsdemystified.com/wednesday/ Webbdagarna […]
SEMPO Scandinavia’s first launch event in Stockholm attracted 120 visitors!
As SEMPO is a fairly unknowned brand in the region it was not many that thought the SEMPO Scandinavian event was going to be as big as it turned out to be! The group managed to attract 120 people to the event where 4 search engines, Eniro, Yahoo, Microsoft and Sesam had 15 min each […]
SEMPO Scandinavia WG – First launch event in Stockholm
SEMPO’s overall efforts this year is to focus on three main objectives: launching and expanding a search marketing training program, expanding SEMPO’s global presence, and continuing to build on its industry-leading research. For SEMPO, global expansion starts with individual members forming a Working Group in a given country or region. In 2005, there were geo-specific […]
European telecoms operators threaten US search hegemony
Europe’s largest telecoms operators – with one American firm – are planning to launch a mobile phone search engine to rival Google and Yahoo. The companies concerned include Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia and US firm Cingular. Combined, they have a user base of 600 million people – with some 20% in the UK expected to have broadband speed mobile phone access by the end of 2007.
Blogs influence European consumers
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The Icelandic search engine landscape
Nordic eMarketing has been doing a research on search engine usage in Iceland. Beside the International major players like Google, Yahoo and MSN there are couple of regional engines. Final results for this research will be published later this year but preliminary outcome tells us that Leit.is is leading when total referrals are viewed, but […]
GSM, GPRS and internet connection at the Icelandic glaciers
Travellers can now connect to the internet, talk on GSMs and use GPRS whilst on the glaciers, tried and tested on the top of Snaefellsjokull glacier the GSM connection was fine (Snaefellsjokull glacier is where the Jules Verns story Journey to the center of the Universe starts). This is done for security reasons, due to […]
New locally written Icelandic search engine on it's way?
I stumbled on a new creation of Spurl Ltd, an Iceland-based search engine company. The URL is www.zniff.com and it obviously is still in a testing phase. They claim that you search the entire Web or 8 million Icelandic pages. If they crawled the entire web or are buying those results from another company is […]
Iceland leading in broadband usage
Iceland (pop 300.000) is the most web-savvy country – a recent study shows it has the highest concentration of broadband users. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found that broadband was also widespread in South Korea, the Netherlands and Denmark. USA still leads in most users, with nearly 50 million.
French reject .EU domains as Cypriot registrations beat the French
French registrations of .EU domains show a clear rejection of the name by the French. After 24 hours, the French have only registered one fifth the number of domains (48,000) that the British have registered (260,000) – even though proportionately the countries are virtually the same size. But French registrations at are also significantly behind […]