Heavier users of the internet are switching to Firefox in greater numbers in the UK, says Nielsen//NetRatings. According to their latest report, by September 2006 almost 12% of UK users had adopted Firefox.
Whilst for web marketing campaigns, 12% isn’t a huge number it still cannot be ignored. Which retailer would willing stop 12% […]

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The NY Times is carrying an article on Google’s lack of progress in Russia to date. Like the Chinese market, this is area which is dominated by the local players.
“Google promised they would destroy everything, but look at where they are,” said Irina Gofman, chief executive of Rambler Media, one of Google’s Internet portal […]

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Heise.de brings us the news (in German) that the German Government will be moving away from co-operation with the French over the search engine research project ‘Quaero’ even creating their own new project with a new name ‘Theseus’.
The announcement came from Germany’s Economics minister, Hartmut Schauerte, at an IT Summit in Potsdam. […]

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Chinese search site Baidu.com has signed a deal with Microsoft to sell advertising for MSN in China. Baidu’s paid search ads will appear on the Chinese versions of MSN, Live Search and other Micrsoft web properties.
Baidu who recently announced it will enter the Japanese market is the fourth most visited […]

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RSS feeds are very convenient way to obtain the information without visiting each web site, and more and more Japanese are using the services.
Despite the initial concern of some of the sites may lose the number of access by providing the RSS service, the latest research done by Japan.Internet.com and goo Research shows that RSS’s […]

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Yahoo Japan has announced its 2006 Search word ranking. (Jan 1 - Nov 5, 2006)
The results shows new trend in the search words used at Yahoo Japan this year. In over all ranking, the ultimate bulletin board service site “2 Channel”, who has been ranked #1 for the past several years, finally lost its position […]

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Indian search engine Guruji announced it will now power India One.
India One is a news portal, while Guruji is an Indian search engine started in this past October.

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People’s Daily Online has reported that Baidu is launching a blog search engine.
Just under 20 million people use blogs in the Chinese language.

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Google Inc. announced Co-President Johnny Chou ( Zhou Shaoning) will resign at the end of the year in order to pursue personal interests. Mr. Chou, Google’s Greater China co-president in charge of sales and business development, first joined the company in China in October 2005. Rumours have been circulating for several weeks and this […]

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Jabse is the name of the new player in search in Bulgaria. In a market, dominated entirely by Google (over 90% if you compare it to pure search engines) this new entry looks like a very brave move…

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Leading Indian telco, Bharti Airtel has announced a strategic partnership with Google to offer mobile search in India. Google will incorporate mobile ads through its Adwords platform.
The President of Bharti Airtel Ltd explains,
“In India, mobile is fast outgrowing the growth of PCs. Mobile users outnumber PC users in India by a factor […]

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Nordic eMarketing recently conducted a series of tests of Google’s regional European performance. By conducting simple searches in Spain, Germany, and Iceland, we found that the top ten results varied in each country by as much as 40%.

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Wall Street Journal is reporting that Baidu plans to enter the Japanese market by 2007.

“We carefully studied the Japanese market,” said Mr. Li, who is also Baidu’s chairman. “It’s primarily dominated by two players we are very familiar with. We think we can do better.” … Baidu feels it will have an advantage because the […]

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According to the Sydney Morning Herald, ICANN Chief Executive Paul Twomey has complained of the organisation coming under ’signficant politicial pressure’ at a recent UN Athens conference to allow non-Latin standard characters to be used in domain names. This, he says, could “Break the whole internet”.
Australian Twomey, was speaking in Sydney and is […]

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Walla.co.il, Israel’s biggest Internet Portal and search engine till 2005 sent a notice to all its advertisers, announcing a shift from PPI (pay per Inclusion at a fixed price) to Pay Per Click. The change will be implemented starting January 1st, 2007.
Walla, a public company, was the biggest Internet Media in Israel since 1998, A […]

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Seems the Koreans do not like people making money from selling online gaming currencies to other gamers.
An IT Week article details this and says that as much as $900 million is being spent on this in Korea. That is one hell of a market! Makes one want to start playing pong again.

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An article on the ABC Australia website details Google’s view of the Australian market.
Basically they see a lot of growth potential as the media spend is below 10% of total ad spend.
Should be a major push to develop Australian advertisers soon.

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The new edition of E-Bulgaria report (published annually by Vitosha Research) contains some interesting insights about Internet penetration in Bulgaria and how Bulgarians use the technology.
Even though the research predicts over 33% Internet penetration in January 2007, things are not looking much better for people who seek to make money in the Bulgarian Internet in […]

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The Google monster came under concerted attack from Francois Bourdoncle, CEO and founder of France-based search engine Exalead in the opening keynote of Search Engine Strategies Paris. The press in particular should be worried about becoming sub-contractors of Google, he said. Whilst at present Google News brings plenty of traffic to sites under the […]

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A recent Hotwire Ipsos MORI survey, identifies blogs as one mos the most influential information sources, second only to newspapers.
The study reveals that 34% declare they have not purchased a product after reading comments on the internet from customers or other private individuals.

Other key findings of the study:

24% of Europeans consider blogs a trusted source […]

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