Google’s third quarter results show a growth year on year of 70% - a slower rate than the virtual doubling we have seen in the past, however, from a larger base so a still considerable increase in activity.
Google is pleased with its progress outside the US - the share of the […]

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Hitwise is predicting that visits to UK online retail sites will see a growth of 8% this Christmas over last. This is a rate of growth fast than last year and search engines will account for 35% of visits with Google and Yahoo leading the fray.
Hitwise has also launched a new data center facility […]

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Foxnews reports that an organisation known as “DotAsia Organization Ltd” has had its application to run domain names in asian languages under the top level domain ‘.asia’ approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
The domains will cover China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and other asian countries.

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The e-media institue provides a list of leading broadband providers in Europe, ranked by total number of subscribers as of June 2006

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A new poll by the National Public Opinion centre has concluded that 25% of Russians now use the internet. This is a significant increase on the 19% figure taken 6 months ago.
1/5th of internet users visit forums, watch films and listen to music and 11% play online games.
Source: MosNews

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Ratings were released on the internet usage of Italians for September 2006.
The report indicates a substantial stability in the number of online users with a significant increase in the amount of time spent online. The number of users increased by 3%, and the total amount of time spent online was 17 hours compared to […]

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An article in the TimesOnline suggested the EU was trying to start requiring video bloggers to be regualted just like any other broadcast media.
How they could police this will be the challenge. If the US cannot stop gambling sites I don’t see the EU stopping bloggers.

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According to the TimesOfIndia, Google is having problems finding the right employees in India.
Middle management seems to be an area Google has troubles finding suitable employees in the India area.

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Baidu, China’s biggest search engine, and MTV, a division of media giant Viacom, launch a new music video and television program service in China’s fast growing media market. The new service allows Internet users to view MTV music videos as well as Nickelodeon television programs directly from Baidu.
The programs are […]

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I just got a heads up regarding a planned new look and feel on Norway’s biggest search engine Eniro.
The new design is cleaner and leaner and supposedly will give better Norwegian search results. Furthermore they are planning a huge media campaign throughout the year worth an estimated 2 million €.
Get a sneak peak at […]

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Google’s recent purchase of YouTube has caused quite a stir in the industry as Google moves from a search and adverstising company to a media company and that means Google’s YouTube won’t fly in China according to David Wolf at Silicon Hutong.
“A Web site that plays videos but is not a licensed broadcaster? That’s […]

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Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion reports on the Edelman and Technorati study of the most influential blogs in German, French and Italian.

Further information will be available during a presentation later this week in Milano where the results will be presented to participants.

The event is open to the public and scheduled on Friday 13, starting […]

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This week President Putin introduced a new bill to clamp down on the gambling industry in Russia. The new bill entitled “About the State Regulation of Activities on Gambling” in currently in the project stage and has yet to be passed by the Russian Duma (government).
In regard to offline gambling, the new bill proposes […]

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The new numbers of the Dutch National Search Engine Monitor (research 1.379 Dutch people) provided by search engine marketing company Checkit and RM Interactive show that Google still the most used search engine.
Sometimes used
Google 96% (+1)
Ilse 20% (-2)
Live.nl 8% (-5)
Yahoo! 8% (+3)
Lycos 4% (=0)
Mostley used
Google 90% (-1)
Ilse 4% (-1)
Live.nl 1% (-1)
Yahoo! 0% (=0)
Lycos 0% […]

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China Tech Stories noted on September 27, 2006 that the Google’s logo on google.cn was the original and not the newly created one for Guge, Google China’s name. However the old Guge logo came back so many thought it was a fluke. Today however, Gemme van Hasselt notes that it has been gone again for […]

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In a conversation with Multilingual Search, Guy Phillipson, Chief Executive of the IABUK commented that paid search should exceed £1 billion by the end of 2006 in the UK.
Guy says, “Search is the perfect form of persuasion marketing and is rapidly becoming the largest slice of the pie in the UK - it is already […]

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The IABUK, reported in the Guardian says that paid for search advertising or pay per click, has risen by 57.7% this year over last.
The finding comes in their annual study of online market share carried out with Pricewaterhouse Coopers and the World Advertising Research Centre.
A YouGov finding also says that UK web users now spend […]

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Media research firm Zenithoptimedia reports that 8 countries will dedicate more than 10% of their budgets to online marketing by 2008. Two countries will already cross that barrier this year - the UK adn Sweden - interestingly not the US.
The 8 countries are:-
Australia
Israel
Japan
Norway
South Korea
Taiwan
UK
In 2008 it is estimated that 17.2% of marketing spend in […]

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The popularity of blogs in China is evident by the growth of 30 times the number in the last four years. 17.5 million people fancy themselves blog writers while 55 million are regular readers. This comes from the latest report by the government’s China Internet Network Information Center. The Internet and blogs […]

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Many CMs aired in Japan now mention a keyword phrase, some even show a phrase being typed in the search window on commercial.
According to Internet.com and goo Research, 52% of the Internet users who responded to the survey have responded that they remembered seeing such CMs, and 30% of them also responded that […]

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