European concern over the power and influence of the American search engines is well known. Now Jacques Chirac has announced that one of the new joint projects which the German and French governments will co-operate on, is the creation of … Read More
The Gulf Daily News reports that internet growth in the arab world will slash service costs. The leading country for internet access is the United Arab Emirates, followed by Saudi Arabia and Egypt. A reduction is the cost of broadband … Read More
The proportion of French advertising budgets is going out at an enormous rate. Now taking 6.4% of the total budget – but more significantly the rate of increase has grown from +78.1% in 2004 to +91.7% in the first quarter … Read More
Whilst Denmark retains the top spot as the leading e-ready nation even beating the US, Slovakia has moved up 5 places in the rankings from a lowly 39th last year to 34th in 2005 in the latest e-readiness rankings from … Read More
Play video with RTSP, or enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video eBay has launched its first foray into Eastern Europe targeting Poland, a country with an online population of 10 million internet users … Read More
Quote Media has decided to sell both Vinden.nl and Zoeken.nl back to their original founder Jan-Willem Tusveld following a decision that the sector was not their core business, reports Emerce. Jan-Willem Tusveld founded Vinden.nl in 1998 selling it later to … Read More
The ACSEL panel, which brings together the leading e-commerce companies of France with figures then aggregated by Price Waterhouse Coopers, is forecasting a total e-commerce turnover for panel members this year of 10 billion Euros. Their latest report shows that … Read More
A study carried out by Le Journal du Net has concluded that Google is still ahead of Yahoo and MSN in terms of the relevancy of results presented – but the gap has narrowed between Google and nearest rival, Yahoo, … Read More
Overture and Lycos are to work closer together in Europe, it has been disclosed. Following an agreement which is to run for several years into the future, Lycos will link its portal more closely with Overture in Germany, the UK, … Read More
Shocking figures from Nielsen//Netratings suggest that online home users in France and Sweden are the biggest gamblers in Europe with both countries seeing reaches of 22.1%. Germany, the UK and Switzerland had a similar reach of 14 – 14.5% – … Read More
Volker Gläser, search director for Yahoo Deutschland, says that local search is more significant in Germany than the UK or France sometimes reaching levels as high as 30% of all searches. He puts this down largely to the division of … Read More
Infospace – a search engine which presents the results of others mixed depending on the type of phrase searched for – has seen a 41% increase in unique visitors in its last financial year 2004 and a growth in turnover … Read More
Wanadoo has announced a pay per click system for contextual sponsored links on Wanadoo and Mappy which has been nicknamed ‘Wanadooclic”. The links will be bought via a bidding system. The announcement was made by Luc Tran Thang who is … Read More
Nielsen//NetRatings global netview analysis shows significant year-on-year increases in the number of hours per month spent online in all European countries monitored. Outside Europe, Hong Hong achieved the highest increase of 25% – whilst the US dropped. Most impressive are … Read More
According to Nielsen//NetRatings, active home use of the internet increased quite dramatically in the UK in February2005 to 11% when compared with November 2004 – France and Germany saw smaller increases of 1.6% and 1.2% respectively whilst Sweden dropped by … Read More
