Online advertising spending in the UK rockets by 62%
The UK’s Internet Advertising Bureau – IABUK – has published its bi-annual report underlining rocketing online advertising spend in the UK reaching £490.8 million in just half a year. This means that the advertising spend in the UK is now double that in 2003. The spend represents a 5.8% share of marketing budgets. The report […]
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 […]
MIVA UK launches personalised toolbars for Dennis Publishing
MIVA Inc. (NASDAQ: MIVA) has announced the first European partnership with Dennis Publishing UK, for the distribution of a customised toolbar for three major brands: Express, Maxim and PC Pro. The toolbar will be identified by individual branding for each magazine, and provide unique content and search results tailored to fit the different users. The […]
Broadband access limitations on the horizion in UK and Italy
Tiscali UK has announced the introduction of a Fair User Policy which aims at preventing heavy downloads – Peer to Peer – during peek usage hours. In an effort to privilege VoIP, video streaming, and faster web surfing, the Fair User Policy will identify so called bandwidth hogs who are then warned three times before […]
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
Speculation of a Google acquisition of UK’s Yellow Pages publisher – Yell
A US City firm has stated that speculation that Google may attempt to buy Yell in the UK is “plausible”. So a rumour then – whose validity is only really supported by the fact that Google and Yell are already co-operating and which it is only worth considering because of its sheer strategic significance. If […]
Chirac's new innovation agency guns for Google
French President, Jacques Chirac has reinforced the development of a eurocentric search engine, baptised ‘Quaero’ from the Latin, by committing France’s new innovation agency to developing a Franco-German search engine to compete with the ‘Americans’. This makes the development one with teeth and money behind it. Does it have a chance of competing with the […]
British firm launches new search engine to compete with Google
The Times Online reports that a British firm is creating a new search engine to compete with Google. Previewseek has launched a beta search engine which claims to offer the most advanced search technology in the world – albeit currently just in beta. The search engine shows a preview of the web sites it is […]