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Obviously, the French only go to French websites

Top web sites in France

Knowing the French you will likely expect the top sites visited by the French to be French websites, right? Wrong. According to the latest data from (French) Mediametrie* from April 2013, you have to go all the way down to the 7th most visited site to find French ownership. Where you are of course right […]

1 month in: Microsoft making good progress with the Windows Store

Launching on 26 October to much fanfare, the Windows store has been live for little over a month and initial signs are good, including claims by Microsoft of 40 million upgrades to Windows 8 so far. Will this be good enough to enable the Windows Store to gain ground on the runaway leaders, Google’s Play and […]

Yahoo-Microsoft Search Alliance Reaches Europe

Today sees the start of the Yahoo-Microsoft Search Alliance roll-out into Europe, with Yahoo! organic search results in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK and Ireland being powered by Bing. This change has already been implemented in the US & Canada, Australia & New Zealand as well as some Latin American markets.  Despite Bing technology […]

Yahoo! And Microsoft Take Search Alliance Global

The Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance is finally coming to fruition with marketers and advertisers in Europe beginning to feel the effects of the partnership in early 2010. In advance of his session at the International Search Summit Munich on April 4th, Microsoft’s Cedric Chambaz, gives an insight into the development of the alliance and […]