Google webmaster tools starts to think international
At least two major new features are arriving in Google’s webmaster tools console according to information from the SES San Jose conference and the official Google webmaster tools blog. The latter has announced support for the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) and a series of further enhancements are expected. IDNA enables webmasters to use […]
Reed Elsevier of the Netherlands is testing FASTMedia's alternative to Adsense
Reuters via Yahoo News reports that Reed Elsevier of the Netherlands is testing Norwegian company FASTMedia’s alternative publishers contextual advertising system where the publisher retains the bulk of the revenue. Norway’s Schibsted is already using the technology on its Sesam search engine – see ‘cheap flights’. The displayed ads follow a similar style to Google […]
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.
Google knocks Microsoft off top spot as strongest brand in the Netherlands
Het Financieele Dagblad, the leading financial newspaper in the Netherlands, reports that a study by CoolBranding has given Google top spot for being not only the leading site in the Netherlands – but also the ‘strongest’ brand. Second was Ipod followed by Nike, Nokia and BMW. Microsoft was the winner last year and has been […]
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Market share Dutch search engines
The new numbers of the Dutch National Search Engine Monitor (research 1.379 Dutch people) provided by search engine marketing company Checkit and RM Interactive show that Google still the most used search engine. Sometimes used Google 96% (+1) Ilse 20% (-2) Live.nl 8% (-5) Yahoo! 8% (+3) Lycos 4% (=0) Mostley used Google 90% (-1) […]
Social Networking catching up with Traditional Internet Portals
A recent study provides information on the development of social networks and their impact on Internt traffic distribution worldwide …
Acoona launches European version of its search engine
Accoona has launched its search engine into the European zone – in fact western Europe. The search engine – which is on a .eu at www.accoona.eu searches by language – rather than country. Currently, the EU version runs in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch. Following the search you have the option to […]
Europe studies the Web 2.0 phenomenon with TAGora
TAGora is a Research Project funded by the European Union. The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportunities offered by the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social interaction and social networks. The project will develop along several lines: A systematic and rigorous data collection campaign that will produce reference datasets and make them available to […]
France announces that 'Quaero' is behind schedule – due to launch in 2011
Abondance tells us that the Agence pour l’innovation industrielle (Industrial Innovation Agency) gave an update this week on progress with regard to 6 of its projects including the European search engine project ‘Quaero’. The project has a budget of 250 million Euros through 5 years and the AII’s press conference gave no new information of […]