Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications just announced the status of “Bot Measure Project”, which started in last December. In 2006, they collected 974,999 bot programs and found 1,711 programs, which were not … Read More
According to the latest research by Japan.Internet.com and JR Tokai Express Research, more than 65% of mobile search users in Japan are using Yahoo mobile search. It also shows that more than 35% of mobile search users are using Google … Read More
Reuters via Yahoo News reports that Reed Elsevier of the Netherlands is testing Norwegian company FASTMedia’s alternative publishers contextual advertising system where the publisher retains the bulk of the revenue. Norway’s Schibsted is already using the technology on its Sesam … Read More
Belgium newspaper – Le Soir – has revealed that Google is to open a new 120-person data centre in the French-speaking part of Belgium (known as Wallonie in Belgium) near a town called Ghlin-Baudour (See map) covering a site of 85 hectares or 210 acres of land. The 120 people are required for management, data management, maintenance and security according to Google, says Le Soir.
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Johan Kinnander, Manager of the Swedish office for Google, has resigned after two years. (Very common for Googlers.. for some reason..? :-)) He says he needed to move on and is happy with the results he has achieved during his … Read More
An ambitious project called MapMyName, launched by two graduate students from Aveiro University in Portugal, aims to map and subsequently count all the Internet users in the world. This is made possible, according to a video release in YouTube, due … Read More
Hi5, one of the most successful web 2.0 sites in Europe, and one of the most visited sites in Portugal, chose Sapo, the most important entertainment portal in that country, as the search engine for its Portuguese users. Sapo replaces … Read More
Google offered an apology to search rival Sohu who complained its data was used by Google in a new Internet tool. This recent controversy highlights the intense competition in China’s booming online market where Internet companies invest heavily on search, … Read More
A non-profit organisation, Japan Web development and Web marketing Consortium was established on 1 April to improve the quality of Japanese web. Current members include, Adobe Systems, Apple, Microsoft, web design companies, and some individual members. They plan to offer … Read More
Mail.ru will has signed a deal to broadcast the Soyuz space shuttle launch through their new online video service, video.mail.ru. On 7 April at 21.00 Moscow time a live audience of millions of television viewers and Internet users can watch … Read More
David Sifry outlines the state of the Blogosphere in the first quaterly report 2007 … Read More
Japan Registry Services, who handle JP domain management and DNS operation, announced that there are 908,329 registered JP domains as of April 4, 2007, which makes JP domain to be the 10th popular domains in the world. (There are about … Read More
Japan University just announced its plan to introduce Google Apps (Education Edition), and provide it to students (up to 100,000 students). The service includes, Gmail, Google talk and Google calender. They plan to provide the service to a total of … Read More
A report by Nielsen/Net Ratings on the site view changes in February shows most of the popular cooking (recipes) sites had a large increase in site views. 3 of them had more than 30% increase in site view from January, and most of the increase came from female between 20-50. … Read More
Marketing Sherpa have released a useful white paper on Website Globalisation, you can download this free of charge until the 11th April. Web globalization isn’t just for large multinational corporations anymore. Companies of all sizes are capitalizing on the Internet … Read More
