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An IAB Nederland study reported by Digimedia confirms earlier reports in this blog on Belgian statistics, that the market is somewhat lagging behind. According to the study, spend per person online during 2004 in France was 54 Euros, [...]

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The Dutch Interactive Advertising Bureau reports that the online advertising market grew by 34% in the first quarter of 2005 to 21.5 million Euros.

Emerce, which brings us the report, explains that the bureau brings together 18 organisations including [...]

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GroupWeb.com has opened a new Hungary newswire service at www.hungarynewswire.com. The Budapest-based GroupWeb.com runs GroupWeb Emailwire.com.

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The Jerusalem Post brings us the news that Israelis are well connected to the internet with 73% of homes having a computer and 58% an internet connection.

The survey was carried out by the Tel Aviv University’s Netvision Institute for [...]

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Women are now in the majority of web users in Belgium who access the internet at least once per month – up to the age of 34 that is! Overtall men still represent 55% of regular users and women 45%. [...]

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Russia’s leading home grown search engine, Yandex , has launched a new pay per click service for Russia along the lines of the existing Google service.

Thanks to Nick Wilsdon of e3internet which brought us this story [...]

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The Kuwait News Agency – reported in the China-based online newspaper People’s Daily Online – is to launch an arabic language search engine to archive arabic sites on the web.

The news was revealed by the Kuwaiti Director General of [...]

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Two organisations from Belgium – Insites and ISPA – which publish statistical information on the country’s web use, are to join forces to deliver better information for web marketers.

Insites publishes the report known as the Belgium Internet Mapping twice [...]

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Ask Jeeves is reported to be on the verge of buying Excite Italia from Tiscali for 10 million Euros. Ask was recently purchased by IAC and may well have deep enough pockets now to expand its linguistic offering. It only [...]

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Dutch Cowboys tell us that Zoeken.nl has followed Google’s lead in changing their logos to suit special days. Google changes its logo to reflect national days – but this means that their logo changes throughout the world. Danny Sullivan [...]