Baidu, China’s leading search engine, and Intel signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate in the development of Internet search and related applications in China. The two companies will work together to develop search applications for personal computers, laptops, handsets and home devices. Intel is Baidu’s backend server platform provider.
“Baidu is the […]

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The recent allegations of registry mismanagement by Bob Parson have been partially dismissed by EURid spokesman Patrik Lindén as reported by Punto Informatico earlier today. Mr Lindén reportedly stated that manipulations may have occured due to the presence of phantom registrars, and defended the EURid criteria which provides each registrar with a maximum of […]

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Bigmir.net, the Ukrainian internet statistics site in partnership with Sputnik Media has released their metrics report for March 2006.
During March, the Ukrainian internet audience grew 10% (274′000 new users). Bigmir.net estimates that there are nearly 3 million (2,913,193) internet users in the country. Kiev makes up 50% of this figure. Other large regions are […]

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Iceland (pop 300.000) is the most web-savvy country - a recent study shows it has the highest concentration of broadband users. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found that broadband was also widespread in South Korea, the Netherlands and Denmark. USA still leads in most users, with nearly 50 million.

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The shopping focused search site, Become.com, has opened its Japanese beta version “Become.co.jp” on the 10th.
The site users can search the information such as products, reviews, and EC site comparisons in Japanese.

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On 12th, Google announced the release of new “Google mini” in Lego-ish simple design, the search appliance for mid to small companies.
Google picked Japan as the first market for the new “Google mini”, and this version is 100% localized for Japanese language.

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According to Datamonitor, Convera is adding multilingual search capabilities to their technology.
Essentially they are using Paris-based Temis’s XeLDA engine into Convera’s Excalibur platform, an indexing and categorization technology. This will include support to the following languages:
French
German
Spanish
Russian
Integrating both technologies makes sense to me.
Excalibur is an enterprise indexing technology that classifies by categories documents, but lacks […]

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Latest figures from Hitwise gives Google 74.8% of all UK internet searches in March. The top four search engines were responsible for 95.7% of all UK internet searches in the period.
Specifically Hitwise says:

MSN.co.uk and MSN.com combined leads the following crowd with 7.8%.
Yahoo (UK and Ireland) powered a grand total of […]

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A quick reminder to all of you working in the Chinese Market, MarketingSherpa has released the second part of their free two part report on the subject (part 1 covered here) It focuses on mobile marketing, search marketing, and Internet ads.
Special Report Part II: Internet Marketing in China — 100 Million Chinese Online […]

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The number of broadband subscriptions throughout the OECD continued to increase in 2005 on the rise from 136 million in June 2005 to 158 million by the end of the same year.

Broadband rate of growth during the same period was steady at 15% and the average number of subscribers was 13.6 per 100 inhabitants.

The […]

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt defended Google’s cooperation with the Chinese government’s censorship while announcing their new Chinese name in Beijing Wednesday. Scmidt told reporters “The number one goal, by far, is to serve the Chinese citizen who wants information” . He added, “There are many cases where certain information is not allowed […]

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The Jakarta Post reports that internet access in Indonesia lags behind other countries with just 6.6% of the population online - but that’s a healthy 16 million audience. Neighbouring Malaysia is reported at 33% of the population and 8 million users and Thailand has 6.5 million users representing 12% of the population.
Indonesia Corp’s country […]

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The European Commission is following with great interest the ongoing rush to purchase a .eu domain name and believe the new TLD is an indication of a renewed interest in Europe as a common marketplace of both citizens and industry.
Punto Informatico reported more than 700.000 domain names have been registered so far, nearly 25.000 of […]

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Chen Shui Bian, Taiwan President, lashed out at Google and Yahoo accusing them of ignoring free speech for the sake of profits. President Chen make his remarks during the 17th annual commemorative ceremony for human rights activist Cheng Nan Jung. Cheng had published a weekly magazine in Taiwan that protested government intervention […]

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An organization of more than 600 Chinese search marketing agencies accused the major search engines in China of taking their customers away. The current contracts with search engines treat the agencies as intermediaires and changing the relationship could spell doom for the nearly 120,000 search marketing agencies in China. The search engines have […]

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French registrations of .EU domains show a clear rejection of the name by the French. After 24 hours, the French have only registered one fifth the number of domains (48,000) that the British have registered (260,000) - even though proportionately the countries are virtually the same size. But French […]

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Google Japan’s “Google mobile ads” started on the 7th of April. The ads show up on Google.jp’s search results.
In addition to the title (with link to the site) and the description, the ads show a telephone icon, which can be clicked to make a call to the advertiser without dialing the numbers.

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The BBC reports on the opening of the doors of EurID to allcomers trying to register one of the valuable .EU domains - now on a first come first served basis. Already 300,000 have used the sunrise period to register a domain where a previous claim existed - such as a trademark or trading […]

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Austria has fallen back in terms of home-based internet access reports Futurezone - although Austrian-based businesses still have access levels to match the top countries in the world. European statistics published on Thursday shows that Austria ranks only 10th in Europe for private internet access whereas business access ranks within the top 5. […]

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According to the survey by Japan.Internet.com and JR Tokai express search, almost 80% of participants responded as they’ve used Google Japan.
Q: Do you use Google?
39.9%: Yes, sometimes
39.0%: Yes, always
18.2%: Have heard about it, but haven’t used it
3.0%: Not sure what Google is
Q: Which Google services do you like?
36.5%: Google Earth
6.0%: Gmail
4.8%: Picasa
3.3%: Blogger
The survey was […]

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