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Turkmenistan joins the internet revolution

The Moscow Times reports that Turkmenistan has begun to allow private citizens to connect to the internet. The national internet provider, Turkmentelekom, said on Thursday that it has been connecting up to 20 homes a day since the announcement, mainly in the capital city of Ashgabat. It has a waiting list of 2000 people. Previously […]

State of the mobile web: First Quarter, 2008

Opera Software, maker of the Opera browser, has recently released the first quarter study related to internet usage in relation with mobile phones using the Opera mini browser. Information contained in the report is based on aggregated data from Opera Mini servers, and related to top 10 countries with the highest number of installation. Read […]

2.8 million .eu TLD in 2 years

The European Commission announced the activation of 2.8 million .eu Top Level Domains in 2 years of EURID operations. The most active countries have been …

China Baidu ranked third largest worldwide search property

ComScore have released new statistics showing that the Chinese search giant, Baidu is now the third largest worldwide search property. In December 2007 there were 66.2billion search queries made worldwide, 3.4billion of them were done at Baidu giving it 5.2% of the audience share. Of course Google dominated the study, with 62% audience share, followed […]

Statistics Hotel Internet Marketing Budget Planning and Best Practices

Hospitality eBusiness Strategies specializes in direct-to-consumer online distribution and eMarketing strategies, published the The 2nd Benchmark Survey on Hotel Internet Marketing Budget Planning and Best Practices. The survey results clearly show the website is a major revenue driver requiring online marketing budgets to support the activity.

Drop Yahoo deal Microsoft, there’s no global benefit!

A competitive and balanced industry with two search giants fighting it out to deliver better and better services to advertisers and marketers is an appealing prospect. Regrettably, that’s not what a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo is going to deliver. An analysis of the global impact shows that the price is too high and and the […]

Global Search Report 2007: Free PDF download released for 2010

The Webcertain Search and Social Report 2010 is an updated version of the 2007 report – including more countries and facts and figures on both search and social media. Download the 2010 report now Countries included are: Brazil, Czech Republic, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, […]