A recent study by a researcher at Brown University places Portugal in 7th place worldwide when it comes to best practices in e-government. This represents a 41 places rise over the result the country had obtained last year. The study … Read More
Google moon just got updated and now boost great features such as higher-resolution map imagery, text search, photos and stories from all the Apollo landings. This is great, but if they can do the moon they must be able to … Read More
Yahoo has been successful in gaining a social networking partner for its UK and Irish advertisers – namely Bebo. Bebo is particularly interesting in Ireland where it has one million subscribers… a whacking proportion of the population. If you’re Irish … Read More
According to Futurezone from ORF.at, for the first time the number of internet users in Austria aged over 14 exceeds two thirds of the total population at 68% representing 4.6 million people. Intriguingly, the nature of internet use has been … Read More
On August 31, Yahoo announced that they acquired 100% of Overture Japan’s stock. With this acquisition, Yahoo aims to become the largest share holder in the search engine marketing industry. (200 stocks, US$13,426,000.00) The announcement included no particular changes in … Read More
IAB Brazil’s Search Engine Marketing Committee launched last week a SEM Glossary. Main objective is educate the market about main terms and definitions. The document is in portuguese and is available for download at IAB website Members of IAB Brazil … Read More
Recent studies have shown that in Germany Google leads with a market share of 88.5% (I though Google had a foothold in the UK with around 79%). Yahoo has just over 3%, followed by the only local engine, ISP T-Online … Read More
North Korea is expected to get its own domain identity from ICANN, according to a France Press report via Inquirer.net. Internet access in the North of Korea is strictly limited – but the award of an internet identity for the … Read More
As companies get wiser about the Internet and understand that Google is not the beginning, the middle and the end in search in every country the start realising that “only” marketing in English might to cover it in France, Norway, … Read More
There will be a lot of activity around web and search in Sweden this autumn. Below I list all the conferences that are coming up and hope to see you on some of them! I will update list if I … Read More
PC Advisor brings us the news that Google believes planned acquisitions of Chinese companies will give it the top search engine spot over incumbent Baidu. Google plans to buy at least two and invest in several more Chinese companies over … Read More
A report by PhoCusWright Inc says that the European market on average will hit 25% of transactions carried out online during 2007 – this figure was achieved in the US in 2004. There are, however some key differences in European … Read More
It’s called e-Justice Centre and it represents a joint project of the Justice Department and Aveiro’s University, which already has a strong presence in Second Life. The Justice Department’s press release explains that the centre aims to be a place … Read More
There are not a lot of alternatives if you want to do paid search advertising in Portugal. Basically you have two big players – Google Adwords with the lion’s share and Anúncios Sapo a very distant second. Now AEIOU, a … Read More
Nielsen/NetRatings reports a 3% decrease in online presence in Italy during the month of June when compared to previous month. The report states the decrease in online presence as physiological and in line with previous seasonal fluctuations with 20,7 million … Read More
