Search engine landscape in Israel
Israel biggest web players and the popularity of search
Iceland leading in broadband usage
Iceland (pop 300.000) is the most web-savvy country – a recent study shows it has the highest concentration of broadband users. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found that broadband was also widespread in South Korea, the Netherlands and Denmark. USA still leads in most users, with nearly 50 million.
Google powers 75% of UK searches, says Hitwise
Latest figures from Hitwise gives Google 74.8% of all UK internet searches in March. The top four search engines were responsible for 95.7% of all UK internet searches in the period. Specifically Hitwise says: MSN.co.uk and MSN.com combined leads the following crowd with 7.8%. Yahoo (UK and Ireland) powered a grand total of 7.5% – […]
OECD Broadband Statistics, December 2005 – ADSL2 in Italy
The number of broadband subscriptions throughout the OECD continued to increase in 2005 on the rise from 136 million in June 2005 to 158 million by the end of the same year. Broadband rate of growth during the same period was steady at 15% and the average number of subscribers was 13.6 per 100 inhabitants. […]
16 million access internet in Indonesia, 8 million Malaysia, 6.5 million Thailand
The Jakarta Post reports that internet access in Indonesia lags behind other countries with just 6.6% of the population online – but that’s a healthy 16 million audience. Neighbouring Malaysia is reported at 33% of the population and 8 million users and Thailand has 6.5 million users representing 12% of the population. Indonesia Corp’s country […]
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 […]
Private internet access in Austria falls behind in Europe
Austria has fallen back in terms of home-based internet access reports Futurezone – although Austrian-based businesses still have access levels to match the top countries in the world. European statistics published on Thursday shows that Austria ranks only 10th in Europe for private internet access whereas business access ranks within the top 5. This however […]
Online population in Sofia twice the average for Bulgaria
A new study sheds light on irregularities of internet users distribution in Bulgaria.
Iceland tourist board says 60% of travellers use the internet
According to the latest surveys made by the Iceland Tourist Board over 60% of incoming travellers use the Internet to decide on what to do when arriving. More that 50% of those use the internet to book online. This number has risen dramatically over the last years. It’s not so long ago that travel agencies […]
Switzerland reported to have 4 million web users
According to the Swiss Media Research and Studies organisation (la société Recherches et études des médias publicitaires (REMP)) reported by Edicom, the number of web users in Switzerland now exceeds 4 million representing around 60% of the population. Between April and September, 4 million people accessed the web at least once, says the report – […]