A competitive and balanced industry with two search giants fighting it out to deliver better and better services to advertisers and marketers is an appealing prospect. Regrettably, that’s not what a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo is going to deliver. An … Read More
2007 witnessed a significant increase in the domain name market. Volume of sales increased by 60% reaching nearly € 50 million, up from € 30 million. All the numbers and statistics available from SEDO here.
New research from the EIAA highlights that 40% of all European online shoppers have changed their mind about which brand to buy following research on the web. The analysis shows how 80% of European internet users have bought a product … Read More
A recent study from the University of Southern California found that a growing number of users find search results less accurate and reliable. 51% of those interviewed declared they trust Search Engine results, down from 62% in 2006. The study … Read More
Nielsen Online released data on the Italian market for November 2007: 9 million active users from the workplace 23 million users who made at least 1 connection to the Internet during the entire month, increased to 24,5 million users when … Read More
The headline is taken from a slide where Andy Atkins Kruger of WebCertain demonstrates the importance of having local people translating. I moderated a session at SMX Stockholm last week called “Global Search Marketing Tactics” where I had Andy, Sara … Read More
The first European event in the SMX series got off to a great start with good attendance, excellent speaker content and a very good atmosphere. Stockholm, in the SES series, was always a more intimate occasion with a great deal … Read More
13 may be a fatal number, but obviously not at Google. Announcment on the Official Google Blog says that iGoogle has been localized for 13 new languages. Users speaking – Arabic – Bulgarian – Catalian – Croatian – Icelandic – … Read More
Futurezone brings us the news that the online advertising market in Germany is rocketing and expected to exceed €800 million in 2007. That is a 67% over the €480 million seen in 2006. The figures are from the Bundesverbands Informationswirtschaft, … Read More
A recent study by a researcher at Brown University places Portugal in 7th place worldwide when it comes to best practices in e-government. This represents a 41 places rise over the result the country had obtained last year. The study … Read More
Google moon just got updated and now boost great features such as higher-resolution map imagery, text search, photos and stories from all the Apollo landings. This is great, but if they can do the moon they must be able to … Read More
Yahoo has been successful in gaining a social networking partner for its UK and Irish advertisers – namely Bebo. Bebo is particularly interesting in Ireland where it has one million subscribers… a whacking proportion of the population. If you’re Irish … Read More
According to Futurezone from ORF.at, for the first time the number of internet users in Austria aged over 14 exceeds two thirds of the total population at 68% representing 4.6 million people. Intriguingly, the nature of internet use has been … Read More
On August 31, Yahoo announced that they acquired 100% of Overture Japan’s stock. With this acquisition, Yahoo aims to become the largest share holder in the search engine marketing industry. (200 stocks, US$13,426,000.00) The announcement included no particular changes in … Read More
