Overture Japan began serving ads to Japan’s No.1 social networking service “mixi” on July 27. The content-match ads appear on the mixi content search results pages. On July 26, mixi announced that its membership reached 5 million on July 24. … Read More
According to a recent survey by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) the number of Internet users in China has increased nearly 20 percent over the past year to 123 million. China currently ranks second to the U.S. in … Read More
Nordic eMarketing has been doing a research on search engine usage in Iceland. Beside the International major players like Google, Yahoo and MSN there are couple of regional engines. Final results for this research will be published later this year … Read More
Today is the 5th Birthday of Yandex Direct, the leading contexual advertising system in Russia (think Adwords). The service was born on 31st July 2001 and powers both the Yandex search engine as well as several other leading Runet sites. … Read More
Baidu, China’s largest search engine and Hewlitt Packard have announced that all HP Pavilion and HP Presario series computers that are sold in China will come with Baidu already loaded. HP users will be able to use Baidu’s search engine … Read More
The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry announced the results of the mobile content and commerce market research. It shows that the mobile content market grew to 722mil yen, which is 39% growth from the previous year. The mobile content including … Read More
A very interesting post from Niall Kennedy about International Search, via OjoBuscador. This data is very interesting, for those of you who haven’t seen it yet. Gives great insight into the breakdown of interntional search. Take a look at the … Read More
Accoona has launched its search engine into the European zone – in fact western Europe. The search engine – which is on a .eu at www.accoona.eu searches by language – rather than country. Currently, the EU version runs in English, … Read More
Interested in the most popular blogs in Italy ? Qix offers a list of the top 200 blogs providing an insight as to what Italians are following, and trends in Italian blogging. Politics (Beppe Grillo) , Blogging (WordPress), Search Engines … Read More
TAGora is a Research Project funded by the European Union. The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportunities offered by the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social interaction and social networks. The project will develop along several lines: A systematic … Read More
Mobile Research with goo, a project run by goo research and Japan.internet.com, announced the results of the Mobile Search research. 1083 mobile users in Japan participated in the research, 43.4% male and 56.6% female. Yahoo mobile is the most popular … Read More
Only a few days ago, another search engine was born in Spain. Migoa, a newborn multilingual search engine, currently in beta phase, aims to take away the hassle of broad search results, by scouting through countless results to deliver highly … Read More
As per August 1st one can no longer keep their personal information secret in the DK-Hostmaster [The danish body responsible for handeling the .dk domain] database. Up until August anyone could choose to hide their personal information from the who-is … Read More
A blog service provider, Hot Link announced the results of blog/SNS usage survey in Japan. 59.2% of blog owners said that the ads appear on their blog, and 67.2% said that they’ve clicked the ads on the blogs. 66.0% answered … Read More
According to the Chinese IT market research firm Analysys International, Baidu still holds the lead among China’s search engines. In the first quarter of 2006 Baidu had 43.9 % of the search engine market share with Yahoo! China in second … Read More
