We don’t often think of the Eurovision Song Contest having an effect on the world of international search but anyone who has watched the event will admit that the voting is notoriously political. It seemed no coincidence that the UK … Read More
Rambler, the No.2 search engine in Russia with a 20% share in the market, have released their financial statement for 2005. As expected they have seen significant growth, as with most industry sectors in Russia the online advertising market has … Read More
WordReference Verb Conjugator (Beta) While looking for an appropriate spanish translation for “information retrieval”, I came across WordReference Verb Conjugator tool. It’s a great tool. It might be an old news but is new to me. A search for “buscar” … Read More
KDDI announced the agreement with Google to incorporate Google’s search engine into its EZ Web Internet service for “au” mobile phones in July. This search service for both mobile phones and PCs, is the first of its kind in Japan. … Read More
Internet.com and Girls.Lab announced the results of mobile site bookmarking survey with 1409 girls between 10 and 18 in Japan. Here are some of the results: Q: Do you know the bookmark function on your mobile phone? – Yes, and … Read More
China Mobile, China’s largest cell phone carrier based on number of subscribers (260 million), and Google are in talks to create a mobile services search engine. China Mobile is seeking ways to offset declining revenues from voice services. No details … Read More
Blogging reaches top level government in Italy. Yesterday afternoon the new ministers were sworn into office – business as usual ? Not really if you consider that 6 ministers are active bloggers, in particular neo minister of communications Paolo Gentiloni.
JASK (Japan Affiliate Service Kyokai) was established on May 12th. They will exchange and provide the information and the services with affiliate service providers, including: – increase the understanding of the affiliate programs – monitor improper activities and exchange the … Read More
70 reporters from around the world witnessed the introduction of the 5500 Sport phone a new type of phone specially made for active people. Nokia has through the years used Iceland as a test market for phones and mobile phone … Read More
Spurl.net, a Iceland based search engine company, was bought by Ja.is. Ja (means yes in Icelandic) owns and publishes both the online and the offline national telephone book and by this is most likely moving on the local search engine … Read More
Google signed its first accord with VimpelCom, a Russian mobile phone company today, making the search engine available to users on their handsets. “This partnership is very exciting. We are making more of a commitment to Russia,” Dennis Woodside, Google’s … Read More
Baidu, China’s leading search engine, launched a censored version of the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The website Baike.Baidu.com is also referred to as “Baidupedia”. Late last year China blocked all access to Wikipedia. Registered users can contribute but Baidu also hires … Read More
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has announced the number of Blog and SNS registrations as of March 31, 2006. The numbers are the total memberships of 53 blog companies and 21 SNS companies. * Blog membership: 8680,000 * … Read More
I was running a reverse IP check to see how many and what sites where hosted at the same server/IP as my client. While I was doing that I desited to check how Google was storing their sites, how many … Read More
Travellers can now connect to the internet, talk on GSMs and use GPRS whilst on the glaciers, tried and tested on the top of Snaefellsjokull glacier the GSM connection was fine (Snaefellsjokull glacier is where the Jules Verns story Journey … Read More
