Spurl.net, a Iceland based search engine company, was bought by Ja.is. Ja (means yes in Icelandic) owns and publishes both the online and the offline national telephone book and by this is most likely moving on the local search engine … Read More
Baidu, China’s leading search engine, launched a censored version of the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The website Baike.Baidu.com is also referred to as “Baidupedia”. Late last year China blocked all access to Wikipedia. Registered users can contribute but Baidu also hires … Read More
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has announced the number of Blog and SNS registrations as of March 31, 2006. The numbers are the total memberships of 53 blog companies and 21 SNS companies. * Blog membership: 8680,000 * … Read More
I was running a reverse IP check to see how many and what sites where hosted at the same server/IP as my client. While I was doing that I desited to check how Google was storing their sites, how many … Read More
Travellers can now connect to the internet, talk on GSMs and use GPRS whilst on the glaciers, tried and tested on the top of Snaefellsjokull glacier the GSM connection was fine (Snaefellsjokull glacier is where the Jules Verns story Journey … Read More
MARS FLAG is a search engine made in Japan, which shows the search results with web page images. It started to run the beta version in March 2005, and officially opened on May 8th. They also started to provide the … Read More
According to “The Face of the Web”, which was published by a market researcher Ipso Insight, Japan remains the world’s No.1 Internet based economy with about 9 in 10 said to have used the Internet in the past 30 days, … Read More
The number of bloggers in China is expected to reach 60 million by the end of the year and 100 million in 2007 according to a report on China’s media industry by the prestigious Qinghua University. China is the world’s … Read More
The Internet Usage in Japan (by Net Ratings) reports that more than 2 million Japanese had accessed to YouTube even though the site is in English. The number of Japanese users who access to YouTube has been rapidly increasing since December … Read More
Spain may not be the internet leader in a number of ways, but blogging is very big here. Commercial blogs are mushrooming, blogger conferences are all over the map, and recently, there was even a book published about Spanish blogging … Read More
An update to Nick’s previous article about Google’s recent wave of European Google Maps: Not only is Google Maps now available in Spain, but the Spanish version has some valuable local add-ons. On April 28th, Google’s newly appointed General Director … Read More
Certainly everyone is aware that the Spanish TPI (“Paginas Amarillas”—Spanish Yellow Pages) has been up for sale. Bidding came down to two major players, the British Yell telephone directories and Apax Partners and Cinven, a venture capital. On the 28th … Read More
Google’s new name, Gu Ge which loosely translated means harvest song, is getting a lot of feedback and most of it is negative. In a recent poll by Sina.com, 85% of those responding were opposed to the Gu Ge name. … Read More
According to the survey done by Opt and Cross Marketing, the “newspaper articles” was the number 1 reason (37%) why Japanese male searches, and the “conversation with family and friends” was the number 1 reason (49%) why Japanese female searches. … Read More
Google has been successful in many areas of life all over the world but its search engine has failed to conquer South Korea – one of the world’s most wired countries. Google referred only 17% of unique visitors to other … Read More
