Reed Elsevier has recently launched a search engine aimed at the business market in The Netherlands. Zibbsearch.nl is running on hundreds of servers in the United States and aims to conquer 20 percent of the business search market in The Netherlands within two years time. With 7,5 billion Euro netflow, Reed Elsevier is one of […]

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Chinese auction website eBay Eachnet has launched a mobile based auction platform with Tom Online. Under the agreement Tom Online provides wireless technology for eBay Eachnet. This new platform will allow users to do their shopping through any WAP-enabled mobile phones.
eBay Eachnet is competing with Taobao.com, China’s most-used online auction site, a division of […]

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Microsoft introduced this week a new feature to MSN Messenger: now you can send SMS messages from your computer while chating. You can also do it from your mobile phone to a computer connected to MSN Messenger. The feature is avaiable on 7.5 and Live versions.
There are 90 million mobile phones, and 18.7 million MSN […]

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Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist and so called one of internet’s father (have you noticed that all invention has a father, but no mother?) spent this week visiting Brazil.
I had the privilege to have lunch with him yesterday, together with selected executives from ICANN and ISPs Association. Vint delivered a quick talk about the […]

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Sergey Brin, Google co-founder, met with reporters near Capitol Hill and acknowledged the company has compromised its values by relenting to Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is trying to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course. Google China or GuGe, the new Chinese name for the search engine, […]

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Google, the world’s leading search engine service provider, authorized Shenzhen Metropolis Search to sell Google AdWords service in Shenzhen and the Shantou area of Guangdong Province in southern China. Shenzhen Metropolis Search was set up in 2005.
CE Dongli Technology Group Co., Ltd. (www.ce.net.cn), the largest Internet application service provider in China, was […]

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None other than Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, has been reported by Silicon India as saying that India will be the internet’s biggest market in 5 - 10 years. He also believes that Hindi, not Hispanic, could become one of the world’s three Internet languages, in conjunction with English and Chinese. Now there’s a […]

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PSI-Japan has begun accepting the applications for new domain “.mobi” for mobile sites.
From May 22 to 29, the registration is limited to the member companies and organizations to GSMA, CTIA, MMA, CWTA, and MEF for their registered trademarks.
From June 12 to 21, any users who has registered trademarks can apply the registration, and from August […]

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The MSN Search Blog reports MSN Search Engine may use the description from a web page instead of ODP title and description.
In a move to please the search community and more in general webmasters, MSN has introduced a new robots meta tag that tells the MSN search bot not to use DMOZ site description. This […]

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Google is facing lots of problems here because of Orkut, its social network which is a huge success here.
The Attorney General’s office, backed by a NGO, is making our friends from Mountain View sweat. Basically: Google must disclose information about Orkut users involved in child pornography. Google agreed to collaborate, but the […]

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Is Baidu expanding? This is the third time in row that the spider from Baidu is the first to arrive on sites that I am marketing. Baiduspider+(+http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.htm). Seeing that the search engine has been around for some time and I have not seen its sipder so early on that might be that they are […]

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We don’t often think of the Eurovision Song Contest having an effect on the world of international search but anyone who has watched the event will admit that the voting is notoriously political. It seemed no coincidence that the UK received “nil point” after deciding to turn their back on Europe and follow the US […]

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Rambler, the No.2 search engine in Russia with a 20% share in the market, have released their financial statement for 2005. As expected they have seen significant growth, as with most industry sectors in Russia the online advertising market has benefited from high global fuel and raw material prices. In line with Yandex and the […]

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WordReference Verb Conjugator (Beta)
While looking for an appropriate spanish translation for “information retrieval”, I came across WordReference Verb Conjugator tool. It’s a great tool. It might be an old news but is new to me.
A search for “buscar” and “optimizar” provides all possible conjugations and tenses. The tool also lists terms with similar conjugation models. […]

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KDDI announced the agreement with Google to incorporate Google’s search engine into its EZ Web Internet service for “au” mobile phones in July. This search service for both mobile phones and PCs, is the first of its kind in Japan.
Google’s PPC ads for mobile will be displayed on the search results […]

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Internet.com and Girls.Lab announced the results of mobile site bookmarking survey with 1409 girls between 10 and 18 in Japan.
Here are some of the results:
Q: Do you know the bookmark function on your mobile phone?
- Yes, and have used it, 62.5%
- Yes, but haven’t used it, 16.3%
- Don’t know, 21.1%
Q: What sites do you bookmark?
- […]

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China Mobile, China’s largest cell phone carrier based on number of subscribers (260 million), and Google are in talks to create a mobile services search engine. China Mobile is seeking ways to offset declining revenues from voice services. No details of the talks were shared by either China Mobile or Google.
China Mobile […]

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Blogging reaches top level government in Italy. Yesterday afternoon the new ministers were sworn into office - business as usual ? Not really if you consider that 6 ministers are active bloggers, in particular neo minister of communications Paolo Gentiloni.

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JASK (Japan Affiliate Service Kyokai) was established on May 12th. They will exchange and provide the information and the services with affiliate service providers, including:
- increase the understanding of the affiliate programs
- monitor improper activities and exchange the information to maintain the affiliate service quality, and to protect consumers, affiliate partners, and advertisers
- create […]

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70 reporters from around the world witnessed the introduction of the 5500 Sport phone a new type of phone specially made for active people. Nokia has through the years used Iceland as a test market for phones and mobile phone solutions. The 5500 Sport Phone is very shock resistant and had to go through
several drops […]

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