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
Almost nine out of ten Icelanders aged from 14 to 74 are using the Internet. Most of the use it daily and 31% has used the Internet to shop online. 85% of those accessing the Internet are using high speed … Read More
Google Israel team (CEO and seniors) meet leading Israeli SEM companies … Read More
Abondance tells us that the Agence pour l’innovation industrielle (Industrial Innovation Agency) gave an update this week on progress with regard to 6 of its projects including the European search engine project ‘Quaero’. The project has a budget of 250 … Read More
Il Sole 24 Ore ha reported e-commerce B2C (business-to-consumer) numbers are on the rise with a 45% increase when compared to 2005, and an economic value of 4 billion Euros, still les than 1% of goods and services sold in … Read More
The Russian search engine Yandex is partnering with the BBC to collect questions for a special interactive session with President Putin to be held on the 6th July 2006 at 1400BST. “We understand that the number of question will greatly … Read More
Accoona – the new European Search Engine … Read More
The European Journalism Observatory presents the results of a recent study conducted in Europe on the progressive integration of blogs and traditional media, and how Journalists are relying more and more on blogs to pick up new stories. … Read More
Seems the censorship problems in China have extended to the two largest Chinese portals: Sina and Sohu. Adotas reports that the search engines at both have temporarily been suspended.
The latest research by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication shows that there are more mobile Internet users (approx. 69.23mil) than PC Internet users (approx. 66.01mil) in Japan for the first time in history. It also shows 57% (approx. 48.62mil) … Read More
