There will be a lot of activity around web and search in Sweden this autumn.
Below I list all the conferences that are coming up and hope to see you on some of them!
I will update list if I find out of more as we move along…
September
Webanalytics wednesday Stockholm […]

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As SEMPO is a fairly unknowned brand in the region it was not many that thought the SEMPO Scandinavian event was going to be as big as it turned out to be!
The group managed to attract 120 people to the event where 4 search engines, Eniro, Yahoo, Microsoft and Sesam had 15 min each […]

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So, finally we will see a Google maps section in Sweden!
Great to see it launching but It will probably not be a big difference from the big Google map we have already seen apart from local content.
The local search engines Eniro and hitta.se will now be facing competition in a field they have been […]

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SEMPO’s overall efforts this year is to focus on three main objectives: launching and expanding a search marketing training program, expanding SEMPO’s global presence, and continuing to build on its industry-leading research.
For SEMPO, global expansion starts with individual members forming a Working Group in a given country or region. In 2005, there were geo-specific working […]

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SMX just launched that they will do an event in Stockholm 30th of Oct and 1st of Nov. this will be right after the emetrics two day event, so I am sure people might be able to buy a ticket for all four days if they are really eager to get started in search and […]

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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 time with Google.
Best of luck to him!

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Eastpoint has bought MIG in Sweden and is now moving towards the US market with a new entity in Miami under their entity Getupdated. They will service the US market with the same services as the Swedish market: search marketing and banner advertising.

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Workey hasn’t launched their services yet but its a fascinating technology that will enable the users to see all the work applications on the web on one site. It is voted as nb 3 of the most interesting innovations to be launched soon on the web, in the Internet World magazine. The site will […]

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Eniro has bought 48.1 % of Netclips who owns the video clip community bubblare.se.
They want to strengthen their position in the market and have a more vertical approach and of course the ability to compete with more videorelated content in the fields of search. With the recent new launch of their maps and search ability they are predicted to grow as a strong player in the Swedish search landscape.

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People in Sweden are still reporting that they’ve had problems with Gmail and that their email from the beginning of January still hasn’t been found. Google says its fixed and hasn’t been a problem after December 2006, but it seems like people are still reporting problems…
Google has also been accused of late responses to the […]

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Eniro has relaunched their website and claim to have a better service now. They are still using Googles search index but is integrating it better now with their other services on maps and address-information. For instance, they provide you additional search results from their own indexes when you search in their regular search box. Also, […]

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Google News has launched a Beta version in Sweden. http://news.google.se/
The newspapers are abit scared and headlines are out about the incident in Belgium when Google got sued for linking to newspapers in the region. The Newspapers in Belgium won that battle and Google had to remove the links…
The only real search competitor in the […]

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Sesam.se is a new search engine in Sweden that is launched by Schibstedt. Interrestingly enough they are trying to go up against Google and MSN to become the best local search engine. Their strategy is to work more with pics and more vertical searches. In the begining they will use the sponsored links from Yahoo, […]

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The conference was full of motivated people and interestingly enough more and more people have tried search. In fact in a survey conducted during the conference the attendants were asked what type of webmarketing activities they are currently working with. About 70% of the audience conducted search related marketing (both paid and organic). This was […]

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Internet World, the magazine about webmarketing, has a conference in Stockholm this week. Search is one of the major topics and about 250 people have registered to attend the conference. It will take place tomorrow, tuesday 26th and wednesday the 27th. It is the second conference Internet World is presenting on webmarketing this […]

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Relevant traffic is a big player in Sweden with a focus on selling clicks from the search engine listings.
Kinnevik , a big investement company has bought 36% of the stocks for 28 million Swedish kronors and is hoping to expand in Europe the next two years. They are looking to expand mostly in France […]

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Internet media is growing rapidy in Sweden with an increase of 40% in spending from last year. In total the mediaspending increased with 7% for all offline and online medias. The total media spending in Sweden is now 7,8 billion SEK.
Search is by far the most rapidly growing channel in the media category with […]

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Search friends,
This will be my first blog at Multilingual Search and I am really happy to have join this brilliant blog team.
Funny enough my first blog will give you news about Denmark, although I am originally Swedish.. but the news is interresting from at least a Nordic perspective.
Google has just posted a job […]

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