Spurl.net, a Iceland based search engine company, was bought by Ja.is. Ja (means yes in Icelandic) owns and publishes both the online and the offline national telephone book and by this is most likely moving on the local search engine market.

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Google signed its first accord with VimpelCom, a Russian mobile phone company today, making the search engine available to users on their handsets.
“This partnership is very exciting. We are making more of a commitment to Russia,” Dennis Woodside, Google’s director for emerging markets, said at a news conference. “We see the sophistication of computer sciences […]

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Baidu, China’s leading search engine, launched a censored version of the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The website Baike.Baidu.com is also referred to as “Baidupedia”. Late last year China blocked all access to Wikipedia.
Registered users can contribute but Baidu also hires “experts” to “ensure the quality of entries and keep the site free of advertisements […]

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The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has announced the number of Blog and SNS registrations as of March 31, 2006. The numbers are the total memberships of 53 blog companies and 21 SNS companies.
* Blog membership: 8680,000
* SNS membership: 7160,000
The numbers at the end of September 2005:
* Blog membership: 4730,000
* SNS membership: […]

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I was running a reverse IP check to see how many and what sites where hosted at the same server/IP as my client. While I was doing that I desited to check how Google was storing their sites, how many IP addresses they where using etc. - This is part of what I found (Note […]

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Travellers can now connect to the Internet, talk on GSM’s and use GPRS while on the glaciers, tried and tested on the top of Snaefellsjokull glacier the GSM connection was fine (Snaefellsjokull glacier is where the Jules Verns story Journey to the center of the Universe starts). This is done for security reasons, due to […]

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MARS FLAG is a search engine made in Japan, which shows the search results with web page images. It started to run the beta version in March 2005, and officially opened on May 8th.
They also started to provide the PPC ads for the results pages.

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According to “The Face of the Web”, which was published by a market researcher Ipso Insight, Japan remains the world’s No.1 Internet based economy with about 9 in 10 said to have used the Internet in the past 30 days, and spent 14 hours in average per week online.
Chinese Internet users spent 17.9 […]

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The number of bloggers in China is expected to reach 60 million by the end of the year and 100 million in 2007 according to a report on China’s media industry by the prestigious Qinghua University. China is the world’s second-largest Internet market after the United States with more than 110 million […]

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Information week is carrying the news that Nortel and Golden Telecom, a large Russian Internet service provider, are teaming up to build a large Wi-Fi mesh network in Moscow.
The companies said that the network will provide access to about 3.9 million Moscow households. It will use 5000 access points provided by Nortel. Tests of […]

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The Internet Usage in Japan (by Net Ratings) reports that more than 2 million Japanese had accessed to “You Tube” even though the site is in English.
The number of Japanese users who access to “You Tube” has been rapidly increasing since December 2005, and reached to 2.12 million in March 2006. Average Japanese user […]

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Spain may not be the internet leader in a number of ways, but blogging is very big here. Commercial blogs are mushrooming, blogger conferences are all over the map, and recently, there was even a book published about Spanish blogging (“La blogosfera hispana: Pioneros de la Cultura Digital” or The Hispanic blogosphere: Pioneers of the […]

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An update to Nick’s previous article about Google’s recent wave of European Google Maps:
Not only is Google Maps now available in Spain, but the Spanish version has some valuable local add-ons. On April 28th, Google’s newly appointed General Director for Spain, Isabel Aguilera unveiled Google Maps for Spain (maps.google.es) and 7 new partnerships to give […]

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Certainly everyone is aware that the Spanish TPI (“Paginas Amarillas”—Spanish Yellow Pages) has been up for sale. Bidding came down to two major players, the British Yell telephone directories and Apax Partners and Cinven, a venture capital. On the 28th of April, Telefonica agreed to sell its 59.9% in TPI to Yell for 1.839 million […]

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Google’s new name, Gu Ge which loosely translated means harvest song, is getting a lot of feedback and most of it is negative. In a recent poll by Sina.com, 85% of those responding were opposed to the Gu Ge name. Gou Gou (dog dog), already taken, was favored by most as a more […]

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As anyone who studies the Russian internet market knows, internet access is a key problem. While ADSL/SDSL high speed connections overtook dial-up for the first time this March this growth primarily reflects the situation in the large cities, such as Moscow, St. Petersburg and Vladivostok.
Yandex, the leading Russian search engine, acknowledges this as a major […]

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According to the survey done by Opt and Cross Marketing, the “newspaper articles” was the number 1 reason (37%) why Japanese male searches, and the “conversation with family and friends” was the number 1 reason (49%) why Japanese female searches.
The research also shows that average Japanese search users view up to 3 results pages.
Q. What […]

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Google has been successful in many areas of life all over the world but its search engine has failed to conquer South Korea - one of the world’s most wired countries. Google referred only 17% of unique visitors to other sites in the month of March. KoreanClick also reported that Google’s Korean sited only […]

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The debut of Search Engine Strategies Italy was certainly a successful one. Although I cannot report on the number of participants, it was apparent and for all to see that the number of people attending various sessions was very encouraging from my perspective.
The audience was a blend of both newcomers and hard core SEOs. […]

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Faster internet connection speeds look like they’re going to arrive in Saudi Arabia - according to Arab News - and this is to be achieved through electrical wall sockets. This method is expected to take the Saudi broadband speeds from 512Kbps to 2Mbps - which will inevitably drive internet growth and usage making the […]

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