Iceland tourist board says 60% of travellers use the internet
According to the latest surveys made by the Iceland Tourist Board over 60% of incoming travellers use the Internet to decide on what to do when arriving. More that 50% of those use the internet to book online. This number has risen dramatically over the last years. It’s not so long ago that travel agencies […]
New Yellow Pages in Iceland
The Portal Visir.is, owned by Iceland largest media company, just added to their services “Yellow Pages” called ALLT. This is a addition to their other services in other more “traditional” media. There is currently no none Icelandic search. The company is expanding to Denmark with a similar concept.
UK behind Germany, France and the Netherlands on .eu applications
The number of applications for .eu domain names seems to be somewhat tardy in the UK, according to the current figures from Eurid – where Germany – not surprisingly – is way in the lead with 81,000 applications, followed by the Netherlands with 44,000, France at 29,000 and the UK trailing the leading group with […]
The Iceland Search Landscape
There are three regional search engines in Iceland leit.is (Home Made / no www) finna.is (Home Made /Google for www through XML) Embla (Home Made / No www) Then there is Google and Ha.is (the fourth local one, mostly used my the Univeristy of Iceland) As for Directory Search or Yellow Pages, there are Iceland […]
Iceland boasts a new search engine
Iceland’s most visited online medium just launched a new search engine that understands Icelandic. Thanks to our unique letters like the funky “d” and a letter that looks like “b” but with a twist, we have been having minor prolems with search engine indexing. Google has actually translated their GUI into Icelandic but that has […]
Iceland Telecom sold to highest bidder
The ex-government owned Iceland Telecom has been sold. This major player on the Iceland Telecom market was privatized recently and sold to highest bidding Investors. The future prospects of Iceland Telecom’s operations are good and the company has a strong financial and market position, the other main player is OgVodafone. The Telecom market in Iceland […]
Iceland search engine landscape changes in Google's favour
The Icelandic search engine FINNA.is has gone through some changes, being one the of two major players in local search here in Iceland the decided to change from Overture WWW results to Google. After having built their own crawler for .is URL’s they changed over to Google for WWW results. FINNA also provides a search […]