Rambler, the No.2 search engine in Russia with a 20% share in the market, have released their financial statement for the 1st half of 2006 [LSE: RMG]
Report Highlights:

Total revenue up nearly 100% period on period to US$ 16 million (US$ 8 million)
Internet total revenue up 137% to US$ 12.3 million (US$ 5.2 million), representing 78% […]

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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.com and goo research have announced its blog user survey results. It shows the difference in usage between male and female.
Q1: Have you viewed someone else’s blog in last 30 days?
Male - Yes 77.75%
Female - Yes 80.40%
Q2: Do you have a blog?
Male - Yes 31.99%
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Madar Research has released figures which show that the number of internet users in the Arab world exceeds 26.3 million with an increased growth rate in 2005 of 18% giving a 9 million increase. Penetration of access is quoted at 8.5%.
The leading Arab country for access remains the United Arab Emirates and broadband […]

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Baidu, China’s leading search engine, is defending itself in court from charges of click fraud by online advertisters in China. Analysys International, an IT research firm, conducted a survey of 2,000 online advertisers in China and found that one-third believed they were victiims of click fraud. Anyalys conducted the survey after their click […]

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Yandex, Russia’s leading search engine, has reduced the minimum cost per click from $0.10c to 0.01c (30 kopecks) in their contextual advertising program. This should allow users to start using Yandex more effectively for the PPC long tail, as they do with Google.
“Practically all Russian companies already know that contextual advertisement in the Internet […]

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Reuters reports that AOL France is selling its internet access business to Neuf Cegetel for $365 million as it overhauls it’s online business in Europe.
The important point about the report is that AOL has simultaneously boosted its war chest by $365 million - not a small amount AND created a strong partnership with Neuf Cegetel […]

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Emarketer reports Ecommerce trends for the next few years, associating robust growth in online sales to the increase of DSL lines installed both at home and at work.
The report identifies the UK as the most “mature” of all European markets, outspending european and even american counterparts on an annual per capita basis.

The study […]

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China Telecom Corp. Ltd., the largest Internet service provider in China, has partnered with the Microsoft to use Microsoft’s Windows Live Technology to power China Telecom’s 114 Web search network. According to media reports Microsoft will make its Live Search service available to China Telecom’s 25 million broadband customers and more than 80 […]

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The Boston Consulting Group has released a report showing that the personal financial wealth of Russians will grow faster than anywhere else on the planet, save India.

Buoyed by a flood of cash from oil and gas exports, the value of stock, bonds and other financial assets held by Russians will grow at 12 percent […]

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It seems Rupert Murdoch - owner of Fox Media and MySpace - plans on launching a Chinese version of MySpace. If it is half as popular there then I think we will se MySpace as the number one visitied site on the web.
The growth of this site has been amazing.

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NYT: A court ordered Google to remove on Monday all links to French- and German-language newspaper reports published in Belgium after an association of local publishers won a case that accused the company of violating the country’s copyright laws.
The legal action is the most recent example of the news media’s challenging the growing power of […]

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Jatalla is an new and interesting way to organize and explore the web. Unlike “traditional search engines” Jatalla’s motor are people, called to describe a web site based on their experience as users.
Jatalla relies only upon relevance rankings performed personally by actual human beings. People are literally the ranking mechanism.
The user must register and […]

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Italian Small and Medium Enterprises show an increasing interest in VOIP and instant messaging as an effective means to communicate on both short and long distance.
A post by HTML.it reports a strong increase in Skype users amongst small businesses.
The overall customer satisfaction of those interviewed recently is definitely positive. The report shows […]

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Google’s senior v.p. of global sales, Omid Kordestani spoke at the conference in Tokyo last week that they will add engineers in Japan to develop new technologies in one of the most advanced markets for mobile technologies.
They understand the importance of offering more mobile services in Japan where more people access web via mobile phones […]

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Yandex opened a new office in St. Petersburg today, expanding out of their Moscow base. Andrey Ivanov, who previously led the Russian branch of the Borland company, will be head of the operation.
In the first months the tasks of the St. Petersburg subdivision will be exclusively in development but in the future Yandex will be […]

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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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Baidu, China’s leading search engine with more than 50% of the China search engine market share, has had informal talks with China’s stock regulator as they are considering a domestic listing. Baidu, a big hit in their Nasdaq debut last year, saw its shares more than quadruple on its first day of trading in […]

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Major Search Engines are believed to introduce a series of link descriptor tags to complement (or replace) the well know rel=”nofollow” tag introduced to curb misuse of linking efforts.

According to a recent post , nofollow has been found to fall short of the original objectives. Google YAHOO!, Ask (and perhaps) MSN are planning to introduce […]

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