Israel’s leading internet websites: New data June 2007
New data from TNS – What are the most popular web sites in Israel? … Read More
Portugal’s €430 million tech plan for schools
That will put Portugal in the top five best educational systems in the EU. Or at least that is the aim of Portugal’s Prime Minister José Socrates, for the next 3 years. Since taking charge of the Portuguese government, Socrates … Read More
Panama up and running in Brazil
Yahoo started this week the roll-out of Panama in Brazil. All accounts are being updated (or upgraded as the notification email says) to the “new sponsored links system“. As far as I know Brazil is the first latin american country … Read More
Google Universal Search in Portuguese
Google Universal Search, the new “search model” recently launched by Google is starting to appear in the Portuguese SERPs (Google.pt). Until recently search results in Portuguese did not include anything more than simples websites. A couple weeks ago we noticed … Read More
Overture Japan's "Technology solutions partner program"
Overture Japan announced their new program “Overture’s Technology Solutions Partner Program” for the partners. As a part of this program, they’ll offer the sponsored search API: “Enterprise Web Services (EWS)”. The program is set to start at the end of … Read More
Yandex releases report on contextual advertising in Russia
Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia with 55% market share, has released a report on the current state of contextual advertising in Russia. Their data comes from their advertising platform, Yandex Direct and covers the period from January 2006 … Read More
Google adds two big players to its network in Brazil
UOL (#1 ISP and top 5 web destination) and Buscapé (#1 comparison shopping website in Brazil and latin America) are leaving Yahoo’s content network. Google now has partnerships with all major brazilian horizontal portals, but Yahoo and MSN: iG, UOL … Read More
Rapid Growth in Russia Driving Advertiser Budget
The quarterly report from the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) shows there are now 29m Internet users in Russia. Over the past 4 years this has increased by 150%: from 10% to 25% of the total population. Included in this figure … Read More
Italians trust blogs more than traditional media
A News Flash from ANSA publishes the results of a survey on blogs and the quality/reliability of the blogosphere. Splinder, Swg, University of Trieste and Punto Informatico joined forces to interview 4,000 bloggers and blog readers. Blogs are viewed as … Read More
Google ready to go with content in China
Google has won preliminary approval from China’s Ministry of Information and Industry to provide content in China, however further requirements for final approval are unknown. Baidu.com was granted an Internet news content service license earlier this year. Last year the … Read More
Japan's Internet population to reach 80 million
According to “Internet White Paper 2007” by Inpress R&D, Japan’s Internet population is 82.2 Million, which is more than 60% of Japan’s population. The Internet population increased about 10% from 2006. It shows that the age group 50s and up … Read More
Microsoft invests in TV manufacturer in China
Microsoft Corp. and Sichuan Changhong Electric Co., a major Chinese TV manufacturer announced they will jointly develop entertainment products that will link the Internet and television. The Internet has developed as a channel to distribute movies and television programs. Roger … Read More
New Russian search engine GoGo launched
Mail.ru have launched a new search engine into Runet this week, called “GoGo”. GoGo allows you to search for web pages, pictures, photo and video files. In addition, area search index included Otvety.mail.ru service. The search engine currently indexes 1 … Read More
OLX Launches Russian Operation
OLX, the online classified service, have announced their expansion into the Russian market. The company provides a similar service to CraigsList, where users are encouraged to place free classified adverts for products or services. Working already in 35 countries, OLX … Read More
SEMPO Japan announced 3rd annual Japanese Search Market Research
On June 6th, SEMPO Japan has announced the results of their 3rd annual Japanese SEM research at Net Marketing Forum in Tokyo. K. Fukasawa (SEMPO Japan) and Motoko Hunt (SEMPO Asia/Japan) – me! 🙂 gave the presenation. The main findings … Read More
