Congratulations on the deal between MIVA and Eniro. Thank you both for taking time out to talk to Multilingual Search and answer a few questions about the deal with MIVA and Eniro. RASMUS: A lot has happened with Espotting in … Read More
There has been plenty of talk about Ask Jeeves’ plans and progress in the U.S., but Ask Jeeves is also keeping plenty of heads turning in the European market. Spain is a recent endeavor with plenty of action to this … Read More
Google announced it purchased Akwan Information Technologies, a Brazilian search company. Google plans on establishing a Research and Development division there and to use it as a base to spearhead their Latin American efforts.
Seems a new hire at Google, formerly of Microsoft, has created a stir and has been served with a lawsuit by MSN. ZDNet reports that Kai-Fu Lee is being sued by Microsoft for “the confidentiality and non-competition agreements he signed … Read More
Interesting article about the impact of new laws in Canada. Search engines in Canada will have to be very aware of copyright laws, though the international nature of the web may make it hard to enforce. The only possibility is … Read More
Today there is more news of strategic agreements in the Spanish market. This time Yahoo is in the picture. Yahoo Iberia will now be offering their popular email service, messenger and Kelkoo product search on the portal of one of … Read More
Baidu is reportedly about to float increasing the speculation about Google’s position in China. Baidu is the leading Chinese search engine – and one which Google bought a 4% stake in during 2004. It is known that Google CEO – … Read More
Yahoo is heading towards a Polish launch – at least that’s the conclusion of the Warsaw Business Journal which reports that Yahoo has launched Polish-language email accounts with 1 GB capacity. Currently, the Yahoo domain for Poland – pl.yahoo.com redirects … Read More
Eclipsed by other Eastern European countries who have already joined the EU, and with less than 10% of the population online in one way or another, you don’t hear about internet progress in Ukraine too often. But here is a … Read More
An article at internetnews.com, annouced that China is joining the internation battle against SPAM. China, the article notes, is the leading nation for zombie computers – infected computers that are used to send Spam. They have joined the 29 nation … Read More
The registration process started on Monday July 4th and the users’ response was overwhelming taking into account Greek standards. Only at the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission and within a period of four hours, almost 5.000 applications for registration of … Read More
Since the launch of the new and improved (or in more practical terms, cheaper and more accessible) .es domains, Red.es is happy to report that the number of registrations for .es domains in June was twice as much as in … Read More
In a recent study by Auna, eEspaña, mentioned in an earlier post, blogging received its share of attention in a special section entitled eSociedad (eSociety). Spain already has 68,000 blogs, but of course only half of them are actually active. … Read More
Alright, so yesterday’s news of TPI’s upcoming Noxtrum search engine adventure, took more than a few by surprise, after they signed an agreement with MSN just 10 days back to provide MSN Paginas Amarillas (MSN Yellow Pages). But when that … Read More
