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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Google Brazil got a court order overuling the previous decision which jeopardized its operations in Brazil. It’s still a provisory decision, but it’s good news for Mountain View at last.
Google recently implemented several upgrades in Orkut, in order to provide better control against ilegal activities and communities.

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I earlier posted that China blocked and unblocked Wikipedia and that it was now available in most of China. That information was wrong and none other than the founder of Wikipedia, Jimbo Wales, set me straight. I won’t try to sort it out here but I do recommend you go to this entry […]

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Chen Hui, founder of China’s leading pornographic website, “Pornographic Summer” was sentenced to life and fined 100,000 yuan (about $12,500). Mr. Chen is only 28 years old. Eight other people involved with the site were sentenced to between 13 months and 10 years for “profitering from pornographic dissemination”. Pornographic Summer membership […]

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Wikipedia, a Web-based free content encyclopedia, has recently been blocked again in China according to the Information World Review. Despite the fact that Wikipedia is now accessible throughout most of China, there are reports that is still completely blocked in certain areas of China.
Wikipedia was originally blocked in October of 2005 and […]

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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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Baidu.com (BIDU), the leading Chinese language search engine, hit a new 52-week high of $108.28. Baidu’s was established in 2000 by co- founders, Robin Li and Eric Xu and the initial public offering was August 5, 2005 opening at $66 per share. Baidu recently announced a multi-year agreement with […]

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Forrester Research provides insight on Bloggers in Europe.

Research shows there are four million active bloggers mostly young, and early adopters of new technologies, as well as heavy Internet users.

European bloggers trust each other and are more open-minded than the average online consumer. The report concludes that savvy marketers will need to take this into […]

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As I’ve reported in past, SNS services are really hot in Japan. While mixi went public with more than 7mil members, and Softbank to offer Japanese version of MySpace, there’s a new trend in SNS market in Japan.
At nanoty.jp, you can create your own SNS site for free. From mid to the end […]

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“.jp” domain debuted in February 2001. With more than 500,000 domain registered, now there are more “xxx.jp” registered than other form of JP domains such as “xxx.co.jp” and “xxx.ne.jp”.
The total number of registered JP domain is 866.495 (as of Nov. 1, 2006)
Unlike “xxx.co.jp” domain, any one can obtain “xxx.jp” domain name from any where […]

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Forrester Research has released a study on Telecom and networking expenditure. The results show that European firms are now spending 32% of their total expenditure.

Mobility is reported to be a strategic element providing increased productivity, cost savings, and higher employee morale.

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Baidu Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU), the leading Chinese-language search engine and eBay EachNet, the Chinese arm of the online auction company Ebay, announced a multi-year agreement to cooperate in advertising, on-line payment and a co-branded toolbar.
According to the agreement, Baidu will promote PayPal Beibao, an online payment tool by eBay EachNet, as the preferred payment […]

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The Italian National Institue of Statistics, Istat, has issued an update on PC and Internet Usage of Italian Population for the current year:

41,4% uses a PC (was 40% in 2005)
34,1% of population over 6 uses Internet (was 31,8% in 2005)
79,7% of PC users are between 15 and 17 years of age
7% of PC users […]

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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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Jupiter Research, released a report on the European Online Advertising Forecast, 2006 to 2011.

The executive summary presented by emarketer provides an insight on the European online expenditure future trends. Europeans are buying more online.

Predictions by Internet Retailer see online advertising expenditure rise to an 8.3% of all European advertising spending.

Forrester Research reports that online […]

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Jupiter Research, released a report on the European Online Advertising Forecast, 2006 to 2011.

The executive summary presented by emarketer provides an insight on the European online expenditure future trends. Europeans are buying more online. 

Predictions by Internet Retailer see online advertising expenditure rise to an 8.3% of all European advertising spending.
Forrester Research reports that […]

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Jupiter Research, released a report on the European Online Advertising Forecast, 2006 to 2011.

The executive summary presented by emarketer provides an insight on the European online expenditure future trends. Europeans are buying more online. 

Predictions by Internet Retailer see online advertising expenditure rise to an 8.3% of all European advertising spending.
Forrester Research reports that […]

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Orkut is no big deal for anyone than brazilians: we account for 62% of Google’s social network. Now Google integrated GTalk with Orkut and you can know and reach all of your friends when they’re online.
It will definetly boost GTalk audience and challenge the so far onipresent MSN Messenger, where Brazilians users accounts for second […]

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The Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference and Expo 2006 just finished with great success not only was there a sell-out for the conference but also for the Expo. RIMC got nearly 300 guests for the conference or about 0,1%* of the Icelandic nation, of that nearly 20% where guests from other countries like Greece, Denmark, Sweden, […]

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