Google Startpage has launched yesterday, amonog the countries, The Netherlands!! You have to search for the hyperlink on Google to IG but now I have the possibility to get my own Google page with feeds, news, weather, stocks and of … Read More
Baidu.com saw nearly triple sales growth but watched its stock prices drop over concerns that they were rising too quickly. Baidu entered the stock market in August and saw it shares open at $27, trade as high as $153, but … Read More
German authors have mounted a protest against Google’s mass digitization of the world’s books for their http://print.google.com project. Members of the German main association of authors are in uproar claiming books are being digitized by Google without their authorization. Google … Read More
October 26: One of Japan’s major internet service providers Livedoor (corp.livedoor.com) will provide the online marketing services to Chinese market together with Strategic Desision Initiative Ltd. (www.strategicdi.com) through Livedoor’s Chinese portal site “MyRice” (www.myrice.com). The services include; internet advertising, e-mail … Read More
Search Engine Strategies will hold its first conference in China next March 17 & 18th in Nanjing. The city of Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu Province and is located about 5 hours west of Shanghai. The search scene in … Read More
Nielsen Media Research (NMR) Italia is now including online marketing expenditure in their monthly monitoring of the Italian Advertising Market. A joint workgroup between the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) Italy and AssoInternet has developed guidelines to monitor advertising expenditure online, … Read More
Oct. 19 – The ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Japan (www.soumu.go.jp) has announced the number of Blog and SNS registrations as of September 30, 2005. According to the announcements, there are 4.73mil registered Blog users and 3.99mil registered SNS … Read More
The ex-government owned Iceland Telecom has been sold. This major player on the Iceland Telecom market was privatized recently and sold to highest bidding Investors. The future prospects of Iceland Telecom’s operations are good and the company has a strong … Read More
The Icelandic search engine FINNA.is has gone through some changes, being one the of two major players in local search here in Iceland the decided to change from Overture WWW results to Google. After having built their own crawler for … Read More
ADSL 2, the new generation of DSL connections, will soon be available in a number of locations throughout Italy within the next few months. In a recent interview Andrea Podda, Technical Director of Tiscali, announced that new DSL profiles will … Read More
Oct. 12: Nifty’s (www.nifty.com) pod casting site “Podcasting Juice” has launched the English version of Mainichi weekly podcast. (mainichi-podcasting.cocolog-nifty.com) The service is provided for free. Podcasting Juice, which opened in July, now has 620,000 users.
Oct. 11, Yahoo! Japan kicked off it’s beta version of area search service. (area-search.yahoo.co.jp) It provides two search windows, the firlst one for the location/landmarks, and the other one for the type of businesses that you are looking for, i.e., … Read More
Goolge map services had previously listed Taiwan as a province of China creating an uproar in Taiwan and protests from legislators and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). Google has has now changed that listing to read “Taiwan”. Google explained … Read More
A new search engine www.terrawiz.com has been launched to search for the websites with contents relevant to India. The search engine has also a directory with about 15 generic subjects and also information related to the individual states of India. … Read More
A little battle took place today on an auction for the Bulgarian national A-class Wireless Network licence. All top players in the Bulgarian communications industry were there bidding for 2 licences which allow the building of national-wide wireless network in … Read More
