Wi-Fi access to the internet faces new challenges as anti-terrorism legislation imposes monitoring of public access points. Anonymous access to the internet is now prohibited by a new law requiring personal identification of users logging on to a public network … Read More
The Inside Google Sitemaps blog has just announced that Google Sitemaps’ user interface and documentation are now available in ten additional languages. The newly added languages are: Brazilian Portuguese Dutch French German Italian Korean Russian Simplified Chinese Spanish Traditional Chinese … Read More
An article in today’s Bangkok Post referenced a decision by M-Web to expand its online advertising/marketing business to include mobile phones. M-Web is a major player in the internet economy within Thailand and runs the Thai language portal sanook.com. The … Read More
The European Parliament has been debating how to protect children on the internet and has come up with the idea of a specific domain for children – .kid – reports Reuters. The domain would be monitored by an independent authority … Read More
Nordiske forskere har fået et legat på DKK 2,5 mio. fra Nordisk Ministerråd til at udvikle og forske i en søgemaskine (Tvärsök), som kan søge på tværs af de nordiske sprog, herunder dansk, svensk, norsk, finsk og islandsk. De eksisterende … Read More
Move over Google, Yahoo! and MSN Orion is coming. Australian PhD student, Ori Allon has patented a new way of searching the web and this new method could dramatically change how search results are provided. Got to love Australian ingenuity.
A fine example of the global village, the small Baltic state of Estonia is allowing its citizens the ability to vote in the upcoming local elections via the internet. The elections take place on October 16. I will be following … Read More
A multilingual web search project has received a research grant of DKK 2.5 mio ~ 335,000 EUR to research the options of multilingual web search covering Scandinavian languages including Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic. Receiving the grant will enable … Read More
The story that information given to the Chinese government by Yahoo! is getting major coverage right now. The story initially broke by Reporters Without Borders has been picked up by most new services. The BBC News gives a good recap … Read More
MSN has opened the doors of its new AdCenter in Singapore – its long awaited move into the pay per click market – reports Abondance. The minimum cost per click has been set at 10 cents in Singapore Dollars or … Read More
A new RSS search engine in Dutch has been launched by Ilse.nl the second most important search engine in the Netherlands. Called Feedo.nl, the new search engine has indexed feeds from 2000 Dutch news sites and the most popular blogs. … Read More
Agrarmarkt Austria, Berglandmilch, Lebensministerium, Raiffeisen Ware Austria and Telekom Austria have combined their forces to create a vertical search engine for Austrian agriculture. Called Agrarinfo, the search facility currently has 7,000 links to agricultural sites and 3000 user addresses. Behind … Read More
В июне мы рассказывали о новой услуге Yandex Direct этой самой крупной российской поисковой системы. В то время как Yandex с большим отрывом доминирует на российском интернет рынке (его доля составляет здесь 52%), популярность Google среди российских пользователей растет – … Read More
Tiscali UK has announced the introduction of a Fair User Policy which aims at preventing heavy downloads – Peer to Peer – during peek usage hours. In an effort to privilege VoIP, video streaming, and faster web surfing, the Fair … Read More
Back in June we discussed the launch of Yandex Direct, from Russia’s largest Search Engine. While Yandex still dominates the market with a 52% share, Google has begun to catch up with recent figures showing 16% (a climb of 10% … Read More
