As per August 1st one can no longer keep their personal information secret in the DK-Hostmaster [The danish body responsible for handeling the .dk domain] database.
Up until August anyone could choose to hide their personal information from the who-is quesries done for the ccTLD .dk domain. This is not possible anymore.
The only way to hide […]

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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 the search queries are answered by other members or “experts” as Jubii labels them.
The search […]

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The Danish tv station TV2 has quietly launched a new search engine called TV2 Fredo. The search engine presumably offers contactinfo, website links(!), maps and a link to a gift certificate partner.
TV2 describes the search engine as follows (my rough translation):

TV 2|Fredo is a search service for people that wants to shop goods, services or […]

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Inspired by Kristjan’s post about Iceland, here is a short run down of the Search Engine Landscape in Denmark
The search market in Denmark has historically, until the worldwide Google dominance, been driven by local directory Jubii (sold to Swedish Spray, now owned by Lycos). However Jubii has become a shade of itself and now sits […]

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Kservik over at Threadwatch reports on the launch of no less than 3 new search engines in Norway.
All the 3 new engines are all powered by the technology from Norwegian FAST Search & Transfer - the left over tech from when Yahoo bought Alltheweb.
The most spectacular news is by far at Startsiden, where the prime […]

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Danish online media site Mediawatch reports today that the Swedish yellow page and search engine company Eniro is rumoured to be about to buy Norwegian search engine Findexa. Mediawatch quotes a financial analyst from Swedbank in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri.
Earlier Eniro stated that they are very much interested in buying up other search properties […]

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Nordiske forskere har fået et legat på DKK 2,5 mio. fra Nordisk Ministerråd til at udvikle og forske i en søgemaskine (Tvärsök), som kan søge på tværs af de nordiske sprog, herunder dansk, svensk, norsk, finsk og islandsk.
De eksisterende søgemaskiner er endnu ikke gode nok til at vise resultater på tværs af sprog og […]

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A multilingual web search project has received a research grant of DKK 2.5 mio ~ 335,000 EUR to research the options of multilingual web search covering Scandinavian languages including Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic.
Receiving the grant will enable the university research group to work (part time) on the project for a while without […]

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Congratulations on the deal between MIVA and Eniro.
Thank you both for taking time out to talk to Multilingual Search and answer a few questions about the deal with MIVA and Eniro.
RASMUS: A lot has happened with Espotting in Scandinavia since launching your service a couple of years ago. Could you maybe tell us a bit […]

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Norwegian news site Digi.no reports that Google have opened an office in Oslo, Norway. So far the office only employs one, Mr. Jan Grønbech. Grønbech is the former boss of ad giant DoubleCLick (Adlink). However Google employs another 3 people, who are all in Google European headquaters in Dublin Ireland.
Grønbech’s new title is “Vertical Head” […]

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After closing their local sites 1.5 years ago, Yahoo has once again opened up to local users in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The local sites have a very similar look and feel to the US site, but one major difference is the absence of the directory.
At the time of posting, there are signs that the […]

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