Sweden's Eniro is buying bubblare.se
Eniro has bought 48.1 % of Netclips who owns the video clip community bubblare.se.
They want to strengthen their position in the market and have a more vertical approach and of course the ability to compete with more videorelated content in the fields of search. With the recent new launch of their maps and search ability they are predicted to grow as a strong player in the Swedish search landscape.
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.
Gmail – emails are still not found
People in Sweden are still reporting that they’ve had problems with Gmail and that their email from the beginning of January still hasn’t been found. Google says its fixed and hasn’t been a problem after December 2006, but it seems like people are still reporting problems… Google has also been accused of late responses to […]
Eniro.se relaunch
Eniro has relaunched their website and claim to have a better service now. They are still using Googles search index but is integrating it better now with their other services on maps and address-information. For instance, they provide you additional search results from their own indexes when you search in their regular search box. Also, […]
Blogs influence European consumers
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Google News in Sweden
Google News has launched a Beta version in Sweden. http://news.google.se/ The newspapers are abit scared and headlines are out about the incident in Belgium when Google got sued for linking to newspapers in the region. The Newspapers in Belgium won that battle and Google had to remove the links… The only real search competitor in […]
New search engine in Sweden – Sesam.se
Sesam.se is a new search engine in Sweden that is launched by Schibstedt. Interrestingly enough they are trying to go up against Google and MSN to become the best local search engine. Their strategy is to work more with pics and more vertical searches. In the begining they will use the sponsored links from Yahoo, […]
Internet World conference this week
Internet World, the magazine about webmarketing, has a conference in Stockholm this week. Search is one of the major topics and about 250 people have registered to attend the conference. It will take place tomorrow, tuesday 26th and wednesday the 27th. It is the second conference Internet World is presenting on webmarketing this year.
Relevant Traffic has sold 36% of stock to Kinnevik
Relevant traffic is a big player in Sweden with a focus on selling clicks from the search engine listings. Kinnevik , a big investement company has bought 36% of the stocks for 28 million Swedish kronors and is hoping to expand in Europe the next two years. They are looking to expand mostly in France […]
Search increased with 200% in Sweden
Internet media is growing rapidy in Sweden with an increase of 40% in spending from last year. In total the mediaspending increased with 7% for all offline and online medias. The total media spending in Sweden is now 7,8 billion SEK. Search is by far the most rapidly growing channel in the media category with […]