Introducing search marketing in Portugal
A typical middle-sized company in Portugal has a website on the Internet, 85% of big companies do. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the website has probably never been updated since 1998, it’s in flash, you can’t find any product listings and the contact page (when there is one) lists a CEO […]
Blogs influence European consumers
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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 […]
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 […]
Accoona – the new European search engine
Accoona – the new European Search Engine
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 […]
Rush for .EU begins "most important top level domain ever"
The BBC reports on the opening of the doors of EurID to allcomers trying to register one of the valuable .EU domains – now on a first come first served basis. Already 300,000 have used the sunrise period to register a domain where a previous claim existed – such as a trademark or trading history. […]
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 […]
Berlin: Travelocity says travel consolidation will cut search engine revenues
Speaking at the eyefortravel Sales and Marketing in Travel Europe conference in Berlin, Jan Oetjen, Travelocity’s managing director Germany, said that the search engine revenues would be cut following the likely consolidation in the travel industry. “We all know that travel is a major buyer for the search engines, consolidation would bring down the costs […]
25% of Belgian companies may switch to .EU domain
Proximedia of Belgium is predicting that 25% of Belgian companies are likely to switch to using a .be domain name. European businesses abuzz over ‘.eu’ domain names – INQ7.net