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Belgian court tells Google to drop newspaper excerpts
NYT: A court ordered Google to remove on Monday all links to French- and German-language newspaper reports published in Belgium after an association of local publishers won a case that accused the company of violating the country’s copyright laws. The … Read More
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, … Read More
Europe studies the Web 2.0 phenomenon with TAGora
TAGora is a Research Project funded by the European Union. The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportunities offered by the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social interaction and social networks. The project will develop along several lines: A systematic … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
Free .be domain names for Belgium as registry opens the doors
The Belgian domain registry is promoting use of the .be domain by offering free registration until the 31st January. The domains are available on a first come first served basis and the registration systems are open now. Whilst there have … Read More
Mirago opens its Swedish pay per click engine to advertisers
Mirago chose to launch its new advertising network in Sweden at the Search Engine Strategies conference in Stockholm where the first advertisers were formally signed up to advertise. Mirago is a UK-based pay per click search engine and has been … Read More
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 … Read More
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
Online advertising sales drooping for loans in Western Europe
Trade Doubler reports a drop in online advertising sales for loans in July … Read More
Firefox browser use expands rapidly in Europe
XiTimonitor has published a study showing that Firefox is truly taking off with European audiences. Norway and Portugal have been the fastest growers in the last with 19% and 15% respectively. Five eastern European countries score for the first time … Read More
Worldwide broadband penetration shows Netherlands romping ahead in Europe
The far east still heads the league table of most broadband connected countries with South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan all in the top 6. The far east will overtake North America and Europe in the next few years … Read More
