The European Commission is following with great interest the ongoing rush to purchase a .eu domain name and believe the new TLD is an indication of a renewed interest in Europe as a common marketplace of both citizens and industry. … Read More
Chen Shui Bian, Taiwan President, lashed out at Google and Yahoo accusing them of ignoring free speech for the sake of profits. President Chen make his remarks during the 17th annual commemorative ceremony for human rights activist Cheng Nan Jung. … Read More
An organization of more than 600 Chinese search marketing agencies accused the major search engines in China of taking their customers away. The current contracts with search engines treat the agencies as intermediaires and changing the relationship could spell doom … Read More
French registrations of .EU domains show a clear rejection of the name by the French. After 24 hours, the French have only registered one fifth the number of domains (48,000) that the British have registered (260,000) – even though proportionately … Read More
Google Japan’s “Google mobile ads” started on the 7th of April. The ads show up on Google.jp’s search results. In addition to the title (with link to the site) and the description, the ads show a telephone icon, which can … Read More
The BBC reports on the opening of the doors of EurID to allcomers trying to register one of the valuable .EU domains – now on a first come first served basis. Already 300,000 have used the sunrise period to register … Read More
Austria has fallen back in terms of home-based internet access reports Futurezone – although Austrian-based businesses still have access levels to match the top countries in the world. European statistics published on Thursday shows that Austria ranks only 10th in … Read More
According to the survey by Japan.Internet.com and JR Tokai express search, almost 80% of participants responded as they’ve used Google Japan. Q: Do you use Google? 39.9%: Yes, sometimes 39.0%: Yes, always 18.2%: Have heard about it, but haven’t used … Read More
Mail.ru, the popular Russian mailbox provider, has announced the launch of their new WAP mobile search service today. This beta service will allow mobile users to retrieve information on Runet WAP sites and to use Mail.ru’s own search engine (WAP-search). … Read More
Nijmegen, 5 April 2006 – Search Engine Mediabureau Checkit (http://www.checkit.nl) has in cooperation with Tilburg University conducted research on the online findability for search engines of the 100 largest advertisers in the Netherlands: 68% of the websites cannot be easily … Read More
A new study sheds light on irregularities of internet users distribution in Bulgaria. … Read More
The official Google Italia Blog was launched yestderay April 3rd. A brief introductory post by Setfano Hesse, Corporate Communcations Manager invited users to interact and provide feedback as well as anticipating featured guest bloggers in the near future to get … Read More
Ordered by a US governmental institution, the Kiev International Sociological Institute conducted an opinion poll of 2,021 Ukrainians by the end of 2005, the results of which were published by the REGNUM News Agency today. According to the research, despite … Read More
According to iResearch, a market research company in China that focuses on Internet media, e-commerce, online games, wireless value-added and other new economic fields which relate to Internet industry, Baidu controls 56.6 % of the search market share. Following at … Read More
A fascinating cross-lingual scientific search engine called Dandelon.com – a collaborative project between the university libraries of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and AGI – information management consultants, together with GBV – has reached a landmark 100,000 books scanned and prepared for … Read More
