November 17, 2005 Google launched the Japanese version of Sitemaps beta. This is the same service started in US in June, and gives query stats, crawl stats, page analysis, and index stats. Japanese version of Google mobile sitemaps is now … Read More
According to the survey done by Internet.com (japan.internet.com) and Infoplant (www.info-plant.com), only 20% answered that they used websites to research the restaurants and/or hotels where they spent the last holiday seasons. Also, out of 300* survey participants, only 26 answered … Read More
The Moscow Times carries an interview today with Arkady Volozh, CEO and Founder of mega-portal Yandex. After his recent trip to Silicon Valley there has been renewed interest in internet developments within the mainstream Russia press. While the interviewer here … Read More
More than 3,800 file sharers in HongKong, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland and Argentina are facing criminal charges in this fourth wave of the international crackdown on piracy. The crackdown was initiated by the International Federation of Phonogram and Videogram Producers (IFPI) … Read More
At Search Engine Strategies Stockholm, Websidestory Regional Account Manager, Nordic Fulton Yancy published figures showing the tracking company’s view on search engine shares in Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden drawing the conclusion that the major local engines are losing ground … Read More
There has been a renewed interest in RuNet developments this month after the successful trip by Russian mega-portal Yandex to Silicon Valley. The Moscow-based company met with several potential strategic partners including “leading search firms”. An announcement is expected by … Read More
Shopping engine, Smarter.com has launched in China and Japan according to Gary Price over at Search Engine Watch. Obviously the growth of consumers in China has made this a profitable target. The web design of the Chinese site is closer … Read More
As the Chinese search engine battle heats up, Alibaba’s Jack Ma sets his sights on the gold medal with a relaunch of Yahoo! China. Goodbye portal, hello search! According to investment bank Piper Jaffray, daily searches by Internet users in … Read More
Autonomy launched its service of a joint venture with China Netcom Broadband (CNCBB), one of China’s largest Internet companies, in an effort to upstage Google and Yahoo. This joint venture allows the Chinese to search the Internet for news and … Read More
According to the search engine user survey done by Japan.Internet.com and Infoplant, Yahoo! Japan is still the most popular search engine in Japan followed by Google Japan. However, the gap between the two has become less than 10% compared to … Read More
Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Italy hosted the 3rd forum on Interactive Advertising on November 3rd in Milano. IAB is the Italian charter of IAB Europe, a non-profit Association representing major players in online marketing, media planning, and advertising campaign management. … Read More
Kservik over at Threadwatch reports on the launch of no less than 3 new search engines in Norway. All the 3 new engines are all powered by the technology from Norwegian FAST Search & Transfer – the left over tech … Read More
The Belgian domain registry is promoting use of the .be domain by offering free registration until the 31st January. The domains are available on a first come first served basis and the registration systems are open now. Whilst there have … Read More
Online payments in China have been capped to 1,000RMB (US$123.53) per transaction in a fraud prevention measure. A variety of obstacles besides the legal, regulatory and political issues, stand in the way of assured e-commerce success. A lack of credit … Read More
Nepszabadság Online reported Google has launched its own Ltd in Hungary. The Google Számítástechnikai Szolgáltató Kft. (Google IT Services Ltd.) has 25 million HUF capital (approx. EUR 100.000), The management are David C. Drummond, George Reyes and Nikesh Arora. Although … Read More
