Google’s third quarter results show a growth year on year of 70% – a slower rate than the virtual doubling we have seen in the past, however, from a larger base so a still considerable increase in activity. Google is … Read More
Hitwise is predicting that visits to UK online retail sites will see a growth of 8% this Christmas over last. This is a rate of growth fast than last year and search engines will account for 35% of visits with … Read More
Foxnews reports that an organisation known as “DotAsia Organization Ltd” has had its application to run domain names in asian languages under the top level domain ‘.asia’ approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The domains will … Read More
The e-media institue provides a list of leading broadband providers in Europe, ranked by total number of subscribers as of June 2006
A new poll by the National Public Opinion centre has concluded that 25% of Russians now use the internet. This is a significant increase on the 19% figure taken 6 months ago. 1/5th of internet users visit forums, watch films … Read More
Ratings were released on the internet usage of Italians for September 2006. The report indicates a substantial stability in the number of online users with a significant increase in the amount of time spent online. The number of users increased … Read More
An article in the TimesOnline suggested the EU was trying to start requiring video bloggers to be regualted just like any other broadcast media. How they could police this will be the challenge. If the US cannot stop gambling sites … Read More
According to the TimesOfIndia, Google is having problems finding the right employees in India. Middle management seems to be an area Google has troubles finding suitable employees in the India area.
Baidu, China’s biggest search engine, and MTV, a division of media giant Viacom, launch a new music video and television program service in China’s fast growing media market. The new service allows Internet users to view MTV music videos as … Read More
I just got a heads up regarding a planned new look and feel on Norway’s biggest search engine Eniro. The new design is cleaner and leaner and supposedly will give better Norwegian search results. Furthermore they are planning a huge … Read More
Google’s recent purchase of YouTube has caused quite a stir in the industry as Google moves from a search and adverstising company to a media company and that means Google’s YouTube won’t fly in China according to David Wolf at … Read More
Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion reports on the Edelman and Technorati study of the most influential blogs in German, French and Italian. Further information will be available during a presentation later this week in Milano where the results will be presented … Read More
This week President Putin introduced a new bill to clamp down on the gambling industry in Russia. The new bill entitled “About the State Regulation of Activities on Gambling” in currently in the project stage and has yet to be … Read More
The new numbers of the Dutch National Search Engine Monitor (research 1.379 Dutch people) provided by search engine marketing company Checkit and RM Interactive show that Google still the most used search engine. Sometimes used Google 96% (+1) Ilse 20% … Read More
China Tech Stories noted on 27 September 2006 that the Google’s logo on google.cn was the original and not the newly created one for Guge, Google China’s name. However the old Guge logo came back so many thought it was … Read More
