Online advertising sales drooping for loans in Western Europe
Trade Doubler reports a drop in online advertising sales for loans in July … Read More
France
Google or Yahoo or Ebay might buy worldwide publisher
According to Brand Republic the big online brands could well move into the traditional media by buying a firm called Trader Classified Media. Trader Classified Media (not ‘trade’ as reported elsewhere) owns 575 print titles and 56 web sites in … 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
France presents the facts about the french and technology in California
A fascinating article in Silicon.com tells of France trying to change its ‘image problem’ in the world of technology. Thus is revealed some interesting information about French culture – and France’s place in the world: France has a higher percentage … Read More
Google's desktop tool goes multilingual
The Google blog has announced that the desktop search tool is now available in a wider range of languages comprising of French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Japanese and Korean. Google Blog: Speaking of search
Belgian web connections too expensive, says Belgian study
Belgian web connections are more expensive than those in the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, France, the UK, Germany and Italy, says a study by Belga’s Test Achat. Reported by Expatica
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
Big Clique African-American search engine launches in 17 languages
Mr. Olu, the Will Smith of search engines, has created a new search engine for the world – Big Clique – in fact covering 17 languages from day one an amazingly ambitious undertaking! Big Clique claims to offer ‘Just search…’ … Read More
Search marketing seminar – Imitiki – to take place in Lyon sponsored by Google
ImiTiki – the search marketing conference brand which normally runs conferences in Paris, is to run a seminar for the first time in Lyon sponsored by Google. The seminar will be on the 16th of June with the morning focusing … Read More
The search marketing association EU goes for lift off
For some months a group of search marketers around Europe have been drafting a constitution and plans for an association to represent search marketers. Following the success of the SMA-UK, Mikkel deMib Svendsen and Andy Atkins-Krüger have been working with … Read More
Spend per internet user in Belgium – lower than the UK and France
An IAB Nederland study reported by Digimedia confirms earlier reports in this blog on Belgian statistics, that the market is somewhat lagging behind. According to the study, spend per person online during 2004 in France was 54 Euros, in the … Read More
Thrifty.com goes into French, German and Spanish
American car hire organisation, Thrifty.com has translated its site into French, German and Spanish – a sign that more of the larger American travel organisations are recognising the need to speak the language of their customers. Unfortunately, 75% of the … Read More
The very first .eu domain name goes live
The very first .eu domain has gone live on the web today – but don’t get your cheque books out yet – this is the registration organisation itself – EURid at www.eurid.eu – which is responsible for managing the new … Read More
New French search engine Ketady launches
A new search engine Ketady has been launched in France aiming to provide intelligent search results for users. The idea behind Ketady is that humans respond to humans – rather than machines giving approximated answers via algorithms. A registration is … Read More
Google turns up the heat in French library battle
Representatives of Google started a tour of the press in March to put forward the ‘Google Print’ plan – the project to digitally capture the world’s libraries online, reports the French newspaper ‘Le Figaro’ in its online edition. The Google … Read More
