On the Google map service Taiwan is listed as a province of China which has sparked a protest from the legislators of the pro-independence Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU). They are asking the government to launch a formal protest and the … Read More
RIA Novosti reports that there are now 180,000 web-sites on Runet, the Russian Internet domain. These figures were announced this Friday by Mikhail Seslavinsky, the head of the Russian Federal Agency for Print and Mass Media. He said that the … Read More
The UK’s Internet Advertising Bureau – IABUK – has published its bi-annual report underlining rocketing online advertising spend in the UK reaching £490.8 million in just half a year. This means that the advertising spend in the UK is now … Read More
A recent study by the e-Media Institue of Milano has identified a strong 18% growth in online marketing expenditure in 2005 when compared to the previous year. The study called NON SOLO BANNER was carried out between July and September … Read More
Three ethnic Chinese were accused of making racist remarks on the Internet against members of the Malay community and will be charged under the Sedition Act. This is apparently the first time modern Singapore has used the Sedition Act since … Read More
With recent speculation on the subject of a Google wallet – it is interesting to see that Yandex have done exactly that. They announced the re-launch of their Yandex Money today, a system similar to PayPal which will enable users … Read More
According to a research conducted recently by Gfk Market analysis, the total internet usage in Greece is now stabilised at around 29-30%. Nevertheless it is worth noticing that the usage difference among Athens, other major cities and the province is … Read More
As reported previously in Multilingual Search, France is MSN’s second destintation for its new pay-per-click system known as Adcenter. Well, it’s now live and taking its first clicks in France in French, prior to making its first tentative steps in … Read More
Danish online media site Mediawatch reports today that the Swedish yellow page and search engine company Eniro is rumoured to be about to buy Norwegian search engine Findexa. Mediawatch quotes a financial analyst from Swedbank in the Swedish newspaper Dagens … Read More
Not much is reported on search engine or internet use in the Arab world, relatively speaking, but the Algeria-based Confederation of Finance and Account Executives has published figures giving Algeria 1 million internet users from a 32 million population. Sources: … Read More
China is regularly in the news these days as the Chinese market hots up and becomes more search engine competitive – but if you’re in China you may not see that news, following new regulations announced and implemented today, reports … Read More
Bulgarian internet is getting bigger and mature. Many statistics prove that fact. Millions of web users are now online. Thounsand and hundreds of thousands of websites are serving their needs. Still, Bulgarian search engines are nowhere to be seen on … Read More
As expected, the latest decision to approve the .cat, cultural and linguistic sTLD (sponsored top-level domain) domain for Catalunya, has caused quite a bit of commotion coming from a number of angles. So after the first .cat story, it is … Read More
Yandex, Russia’s most popular search engine, announced today the opening of their portal in Ukraine. This will provide local search, news and information. As Arkady Volozh, General Director of Yandex explains, “Opening a branch in Ukraine will dramatically speed up … Read More
An interesting story has been travelling around the media in Europe this week as Baidu – the leading Chinese search engine – has defended itself from major music labels concerning music downloading. Baidu has strongly protested its innocence claiming that … Read More
