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 … Read More
The shopping focused search site, Become.com, has opened its Japanese beta version “Become.co.jp” on the 10th. The site users can search the information such as products, reviews, and EC site comparisons in Japanese.
On 12th, Google announced the release of new “Google mini” in Lego-ish simple design, the search appliance for mid to small companies. Google picked Japan as the first market for the new “Google mini”, and this version is 100% localized … Read More
According to Datamonitor, Convera is adding multilingual search capabilities to their technology. Essentially they are using Paris-based Temis’s XeLDA engine into Convera’s Excalibur platform, an indexing and categorization technology. This will include support to the following languages: French German Spanish … Read More
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
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 … Read More
Google CEO Eric Schmidt defended Google’s cooperation with the Chinese government’s censorship while announcing their new Chinese name in Beijing Wednesday. Scmidt told reporters “The number one goal, by far, is to serve the Chinese citizen who wants information” . … Read More
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 … Read More
The European Commission is following with great interest the ongoing rush to purchase a .eu domain name and believe the new TLD is an indication of a renewed interest in Europe as a common marketplace of both citizens and industry. … Read More
Chen Shui Bian, Taiwan President, lashed out at Google and Yahoo accusing them of ignoring free speech for the sake of profits. President Chen make his remarks during the 17th annual commemorative ceremony for human rights activist Cheng Nan Jung. … Read More
An organization of more than 600 Chinese search marketing agencies accused the major search engines in China of taking their customers away. The current contracts with search engines treat the agencies as intermediaires and changing the relationship could spell doom … Read More
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
Google Japan’s “Google mobile ads” started on the 7th of April. The ads show up on Google.jp’s search results. In addition to the title (with link to the site) and the description, the ads show a telephone icon, which can … Read More
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
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 … Read More
