Online population in Sofia twice the average for Bulgaria
A new study sheds light on irregularities of internet users distribution in Bulgaria. … Read More
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Google Italia launches blog
The official Google Italia Blog was launched yestderay April 3rd. A brief introductory post by Setfano Hesse, Corporate Communcations Manager invited users to interact and provide feedback as well as anticipating featured guest bloggers in the near future to get … Read More
45.3% of Ukraine prefers speaking Russian
Ordered by a US governmental institution, the Kiev International Sociological Institute conducted an opinion poll of 2,021 Ukrainians by the end of 2005, the results of which were published by the REGNUM News Agency today. According to the research, despite … Read More
Baidu still reigns supreme in China
According to iResearch, a market research company in China that focuses on Internet media, e-commerce, online games, wireless value-added and other new economic fields which relate to Internet industry, Baidu controls 56.6 % of the search market share. Following at … Read More
Portal offers 100,000 books scanned for searching in German
A fascinating cross-lingual scientific search engine called Dandelon.com – a collaborative project between the university libraries of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and AGI – information management consultants, together with GBV – has reached a landmark 100,000 books scanned and prepared for … Read More
Iceland tourist board says 60% of travellers use the internet
According to the latest surveys made by the Iceland Tourist Board over 60% of incoming travellers use the Internet to decide on what to do when arriving. More that 50% of those use the internet to book online. This number … Read More
New GSM service provider in Iceland
A new company, only Internet based, opened the first of April. The company is called SKO and is owned by the same company, Dagsbrun, that operates Vodafone in Iceland. Their services will only be Internet based, no “phone” support and … Read More
Jim Lanzone scheduled as keynote speaker at forthcoming SES in Milano, Italy
Jim Lanzone, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Ask.com will attend Search Engine Strategies Italy as a keynote speaker. This is the first Search Engine Strategies Conference in Italy, scheduled on April 26 and 27 in Milano. Ask.com Italia … Read More
Switzerland reported to have 4 million web users
According to the Swiss Media Research and Studies organisation (la société Recherches et études des médias publicitaires (REMP)) reported by Edicom, the number of web users in Switzerland now exceeds 4 million representing around 60% of the population. Between April … Read More
Danish Search Engine Jubii launches search results based on other users answers
It seems the Danish search engine scene have gone beserck releasing new search services. Recently we reported the new search engine from Danish tv station TV2. Now search engine Jubii has recently launched a search service called Jubii iQ where … Read More
Russian Internet daily audience has grown 29%
The second annual conference “Audience Control and Advertising in the Internet” has just come to a close in Moscow. More then 300 people from different regions of Russia came to the capital to discuss internet advertising perspectives, 2 times more … Read More
China's search industry to face "sharp slowdown"
According to Analysys International, an Internet based provider of business information, China’s search engine industry will experience a sharp slowdown in revenue growth over the next 18 months. Search engine users are dissatisfied with search results and advertisers aren’t seeing … Read More
Silver surfers cause worldwide internet growth
The Pew Global Attitudes Project has released a report illustrating the rapid growth of internet use globally. Much of this growth can be put down to more women and over 50’s coming online across Western Europe. The report also contains … Read More
Russian domains reach half a million
Ru-Centre, the Russian Registrar, has released this Monday on the number of domains in circulation. According to their figures 140 000 new URLs appeared last year in the Russian internet, which is 46.31% more than in 2004. In the beginning … Read More
China aims to can spam with new measures
With 60% of the emails in China considered spam, China’s Ministry of Information enacted their first anti-spam measures to take effect on March 30th. Unfortunately these measures are purely administrative and only apply to anyone operating an email service. China … Read More
