How Do Journalists Search For Material?

Kristjan Mar Hauksson

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In a research done by Nordic eMarketing in cooperation with the eNewsPR network, journalists are found to use less than 2.5 keywords most of the time. In the same research Nordic eMarketing found that French journalists are lazier than the [...]

SEMPO Goes International

Kristjan Mar Hauksson

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Six out of thirteen SEMPO board members are now none-US so SEMPO is turning truly International. SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization annouced earlier this month the results of its 2010 Board of Directors election which begin their [...]

Google Has 80% Market Share in Iceland

Kristjan Mar Hauksson

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A study done by Nordic eMarketing in Iceland last October showed that Google had 79% market share with Leit.is a local player with close to 9%. Another study done this March showed that Google has reached the 80% mark and [...]

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According to research published in new Icelandic book on Internet marketing 80% of the Icelandic nation is using Facebook. Another research done by the international research company Capacent and published in the same book it’s revealed that 72% of Internet [...]

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In 2009, according to the eighth survey on the use of Information and Communications technology by Statistics Iceland 92 percent of Icelandic households had a computer with 90 percent of them all having access to the Internet. Nearly all of [...]

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SMX will be held in London for the third time, the conference is lead by Chris Sherman and is a two day event taking place on the 18th and the 19th of May this year. Among speakers are several Multilingual [...]

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Internet usage in Sweden droped sharply after new file sharing laws. This legislation makes it possible to order any Swedish Internet operator to provide details identifying suspected copyright infringers. The effects of the new laws were almost instant. The day [...]

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According to a survey done by Statistics Iceland for the year 2008, Reykjavik has nearly 100% penetration of fast connection that is (ADSL or other types of xDSL connections), this changes very little when comes to region outside, goes down [...]

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The annual Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference and Expo (RIMC) will be taking place on Friday 20th March in Reykjavik, Iceland this year. The conference focuses on Online communications and Internet marketing in a International Environment.

Speakers include Sion Portman, European [...]

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According to Elvar Arason researcher and a senior consultat at ABSmedia Iceland nearly all Icelanders aged 20 to 29 are registered on Facebook. This social media website is a huge success in the country to say the least.

Nearly half of [...]

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Statistics Iceland has published the results of its seventh survey on the use of ICT and the Internet by Icelandic households and individuals. The survey was conducted earlier this year and shows how the vast majority of Icelandic households have [...]

Google has added 10 new languages

Kristjan Mar Hauksson

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Google has added ten new languages to its translation service bringing the total to 23, Google also added a “detect language” option for those that need.

The languages are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.

This feature [...]

Inflected languages and Google

Kristjan Mar Hauksson

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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, [...]

Google misses out on translations

Kristjan Mar Hauksson

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The world’s largest search engine misses out on localization, how? Spelling error, I’m I feeling lucky button was changed to “Freysta gæfunnar”, the problem is that there is no y in freysta so the search engine that has 50% of [...]

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The annual Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference and Expo (RIMC) will be taking place on Friday 8th February at the Hilton Nordica in Reykjavik, Iceland. The conference focuses on Internet marketing and advertising, and the possibilities created by employing a structured [...]

bott.is domain number 20,000 in Iceland

Kristjan Mar Hauksson

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On the 29th of November this year active domain number 20,000 became real in Iceland. The twist to this is that the 29th of November 2007 is very close to the 20 year birthday of the Internet in Iceland. The [...]

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The headline is taken from a slide where Andy Atkins Kruger of WebCertain demonstrates the importance of having local people translating.

I moderated a session at SMX Stockholm last week called “Global Search Marketing Tactics” where I had Andy, Sara [...]

The sleeper awakes… slowly

Kristjan Mar Hauksson

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It might not be a surprice but India is booming, the country might only be a sub-continent, but it is a mega-country to be in regards of internet usage, but the rise is slower than expected. According to a recent [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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