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Europe leads in mobile internet access
eMarketer reports on Internet access via mobile devices. The study was conducted in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, and the US. while 29% of European Internet users regularly access the Internet from their mobile phones, only 19% of US users … Read More
UK retail sites to see 8% growth at Christmas
Hitwise is predicting that visits to UK online retail sites will see a growth of 8% this Christmas over last. This is a rate of growth fast than last year and search engines will account for 35% of visits with … Read More
UK paid search to exceed £1 billion in 2006
In a conversation with Multilingual Search, Guy Phillipson, Chief Executive of the IABUK commented that paid search should exceed £1 billion by the end of 2006 in the UK. Guy says, “Search is the perfect form of persuasion marketing and … Read More
Paid search in the UK up 57.7% to £531.3m
The IABUK, reported in the Guardian says that paid for search advertising or pay per click, has risen by 57.7% this year over last. The finding comes in their annual study of online market share carried out with Pricewaterhouse Coopers … Read More
Online advertising to exceed 10% of budgets in 8 markets by 2008
Media research firm Zenithoptimedia reports that 8 countries will dedicate more than 10% of their budgets to online marketing by 2008. Two countries will already cross that barrier this year – the UK adn Sweden – interestingly not the US. … Read More
Translation important for the future of search, says Google's Jeff Levick at AdTech London
Google’s vertical markets director, Jeff Levick, highlighted the importance of translation, machine translation in other words, during the “Future of Search” panel debate at London’s AdTech, which I was fortunate enough to moderate. Jeff pointed to the fact that there … Read More
Relevant Traffic has sold 36% of stock to Kinnevik
Relevant traffic is a big player in Sweden with a focus on selling clicks from the search engine listings. Kinnevik , a big investement company has bought 36% of the stocks for 28 million Swedish kronors and is hoping to … Read More
New Emarketer report on European online commerce
Emarketer reports Ecommerce trends for the next few years, associating robust growth in online sales to the increase of DSL lines installed both at home and at work. The report identifies the UK as the most “mature” of all European … Read More
Social Networking catching up with Traditional Internet Portals
A recent study provides information on the development of social networks and their impact on Internt traffic distribution worldwide … … Read More
'Free' broadband in the UK knocks growth in uptake!
UK Plus reports that recent campaigns offering broadband for free in the UK (alongside telephone calls) has resulted in the worst quarter the industry has known in recent times – just 730,000 lines were added in the most recent quarter. … 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
Europe's "Most Digital" Market is the UK
Well there we have it, Digital Britain rules and the empire is back to it’s former glory. Just released research from Informa Telecoms & Media puts UK as number one in digital content consumption among all the markets of Western … Read More
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 … Read More
