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
Ask Jeeves has broadened its multilingual offering by launching a new Spanish index – this will give the organisation – currently negotiating its own acquisition by IAC corporation – to compete more effectively with Google, Yahoo, MSN worldwide. It is … Read More
According to German survey organisation Wahlen Online, the number of internet users at home has grown to 61% in the last quarter – a relatively small increase over the previous quarter. Around 34% of the survey respondents access the internet … Read More
According to figures from Audiweb by Nielsen//NetRatings, Google.it has the greatest reach in Italy of work and home users reaching 57.3%, Libero.it is second at 49.5%, Virgilio.it is third with 48.3% and MSN.it fourth with 36.2%. This makes Italy once … Read More
Of course, it’s the first of April and the day of the ‘Gros poissons’ or April fool in France. Not surprising then that Abondance has announced a new TV channel called Google TV. Could it really happen?
