Baidu, China’s largest search engine and Hewlitt Packard have announced that all HP Pavilion and HP Presario series computers that are sold in China will come with Baidu already loaded. HP users will be able to use Baidu’s search engine service through the embedded IE browser homepage or address search, without having to navigate to […]

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The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry announced the results of the mobile content and commerce market research. It shows that the mobile content market grew to 722mil yen, which is 39% growth from the previous year.
The mobile content including ring tones, mobile games, videos, and photos, grew by 21% to 315mil. yen market.
The […]

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A very interesting post from Niall Kennedy about International Search, via OjoBuscador.
This data is very interesting, for those of you who haven’t seen it yet. Gives great insight into the breakdown of interntional search. Take a look at the graph. Where are you in the data?

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Accoona has launched its search engine into the European zone - in fact western Europe. The search engine - which is on a .eu at www.accoona.eu searches by language - rather than country. Currently, the EU version runs in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch.
Following the search you have the option […]

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Interested in the most popular blogs in Italy ? Qix offers a list of the top 200 blogs providing an insight as to what Italians are following, and trends in Italian blogging. Politics (Beppe Grillo) , Blogging (WordPress), Search Engines (Motoricerca), and Travel (travelblog) all rank high, followed by many amateur blogs that have become […]

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TAGora is a Research Project funded by the European Union. The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportunities offered by the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social interaction and social networks.
The project will develop along several lines:

A systematic and rigorous data collection campaign that will produce reference datasets and make them available to the […]

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Mobile Research with goo, a project run by goo research and Japan.internet.com, announced the results of the Mobile Search research.
1083 mobile users in Japan participated in the research, 43.4% male and 56.6% female.
Yahoo mobile is the most popular search site with 66%, 34% use what’s on the menu, and 27% prefer Google mobile search.
78% […]

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Only a few days ago, another search engine was born in Spain. Migoa, a newborn multilingual search engine, currently in beta phase, aims to take away the hassle of broad search results, by scouting through countless results to deliver highly relevant, specific results for job, home and car rental.
Multilingual Search is happy to be the […]

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As per August 1st one can no longer keep their personal information secret in the DK-Hostmaster [The danish body responsible for handeling the .dk domain] database.
Up until August anyone could choose to hide their personal information from the who-is quesries done for the ccTLD .dk domain. This is not possible anymore.
The only way to hide […]

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A blog service provider, Hot Link announced the results of blog/SNS usage survey in Japan.
59.2% of blog owners said that the ads appear on their blog, and 67.2% said that they’ve clicked the ads on the blogs.
66.0% answered that they would write product/service reviews for rewards (products and/or money) if they receive no pressure to […]

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According to the Chinese IT market research firm Analysys International, Baidu still holds the lead among China’s search engines. In the first quarter of 2006 Baidu had 43.9 % of the search engine market share with Yahoo! China in second with a market share of 21.1 % and Google ranking third with a market […]

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Almost nine out of ten Icelanders aged from 14 to 74 are using the Internet. Most of the use it daily and 31% has used the Internet to shop online. 85% of those accessing the Internet are using high speed connections.

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Google Israel team (CEO and seniors) meet leading Israeli SEM companies

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Abondance tells us that the Agence pour l’innovation industrielle (Industrial Innovation Agency) gave an update this week on progress with regard to 6 of its projects including the European search engine project ‘Quaero’. The project has a budget of 250 million Euros through 5 years and the AII’s press conference gave no new information […]

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Il Sole 24 Ore ha reported Ecommerce B2C (Business to Consumer) numbers are on the rise with a 45% increase when compared to 2005, and an economic value of 4 billion Euros, still les than 1% of goods and services sold in Italy: Online purchasing is still a niche.

Tourism has shown significant increase and has […]

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The Russian search engine Yandex is partnering with the BBC to collect questions for a special interactive session with President Putin to be held on the 6th July 2006 at 1400BST.
“We understand that the number of question will greatly exceed the number which can be answered by one man in one and a half […]

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Accoona - the new European Search Engine

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The European Journalism Observatory presents the results of a recent study conducted in Europe on the progressive integration of blogs and traditional media, and how Journalists are relying more and more on blogs to pick up new stories.

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Seems the censorship problems in China have extended to the two largest Chinese portals: Sina and Sohu.
Adotas reports that the search engines at both have temporarily been suspended.

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The latest research by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication shows that there are more mobile Internet users (approx. 69.23mil) than PC Internet users (approx. 66.01mil) in Japan for the first time in history.
It also shows 57% (approx. 48.62mil) of the Internet users (approx. 85.29mil) are using both PC and mobile devices to access Internet.

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