Corporate and home banking statistics for Italy, 2007
Banca d’Italia has published recent statistics on home and corporate online banking usage in Italy. The report shows … … Read More
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Does category listing improve ranking in Japanese search engines?
According to the research by Xlisting (excite is their major share holder), 55.6% of pages ranking within top 10 in Yahoo search results are owned by the sites listed in Xlinsting’s categories. They also says that 43% of Google top … Read More
Google financial results show 15% increase in click costs?
Google has announced it’s first quarter financial results in 2008 showing a 42% increase in turnover (revenues) from the same quarter in 2007. In the same timescale, click volumes have increased by a mere 20% showing the value per click … Read More
Broadband contents usage in Japan
According to goo Research’s report, 85% of teenagers and preteens participated in the survey said that they know (and use) video sharing sites. It shows that YouTube (57%) is the most popular video sharing site followed by NicoNicoDouga (13%). “Listening … Read More
Google Cafe open in Tokyo – for a limited time only
Ok, this is not really a search news, but still a fun news about Google. Google opened “Google Cafe” in Roppongi, Tokyo this weekend. Their “Google Sodas” come in several Google logo colours. They also serve light meals and deserts. … Read More
Russians snub ICANN with IDN SU registrations
As we reported back in February 2007, ICANN is still attempting to delete the obsolete SU (Soviet Union) extension but having little success. While they have managed to decommission the .YU (Yogoslavia) extension successfully they are finding rebellion among Russian … Read More
Google Bulgaria now handles transliteration
You wont read about it in an official Google post in any of the Google blogs I am aware of, but it’s a fact from like 2 months now – Google does transliteration from Latin letters to Bulgarian letters when … Read More
European families with children are very active online
The first ever ‘Digital Families’ Report, the latest in the EIAA Mediascope Europe series, reveals interesting insights into the digital lifestyles of Europe’s online families
Google initiates trademark bloodbath in the UK
Google has changed its trademark policy for the UK and Ireland bringing it into line with its policy for the US and Canada. What this means in practice is that for trademark complaints relating to its Adwords programme, from now … Read More
2.8 million .eu TLD in 2 years
The European Commission announced the activation of 2.8 million .eu Top Level Domains in 2 years of EURID operations. The most active countries have been … … Read More
Russian WebMoney system: Free PDF magazine
If you are considering targeting the Russian audience, one of the first hurdles to overcome is how to deal with the local online payment methods. Credit cards have started to be distributed but they are expensive, with high interest rates, … Read More
TV ad campaign in Portugal uses blogs
A tv ad campaign for ZON (a cable operator that offers a triple play service) began airing the passed week on the main Portuguese tv networks. The campaign isn’t very out of the ordinary, but for one thing: it mentions … Read More
Yandex partners with Russian Development Bank (RBR)
Yandex, the leading search engine in Russia has announced a partnership with the Russian Development Bank (RBR). This will allow users of their online payment system, Yandex Money to transfer funds to and from the virtual account via the ATM … Read More
Inflected languages and Google
Google starting to deal in a proper way with inflected languages such as Icelandic by stripping away the grammar. Icelandic users have had to put up with the search engine’s illiteracy by entering their searches in various cases, numbers, genders, … Read More
Russian Yandex Hands Out Free Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Yandex, the leading search engine portal in Russia has signed a deal with Kaspersky Anti-Virus to bundle their product into their desktop application, Ya Online. Ya Online is free desktop software, which connects to their mail service (Yandex Post), allows … Read More
