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Eco Find - The green search engine

  Jan 31, 2008

It uses a black background and therefore offers great energy savings, because black uses less energy than white on computer monitors.
Called Eco Find, it is interely Portuguese in the making, but it uses Google results.

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Travel and tourism services - trends in the European internet distribution

 

The Centre for Regional and Tourism Research, Denmark published a study on the Trends in European Internet Distribution - of Travel and Tourism Services.

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Brazil most admired publishers: Google leads internet category

  Jan 29, 2008

For the 8th consecutive year Meio&Mensagem , the local “Ad Age”, published its Most Admired Publishers list. There are 6 categories: TV, paid TV, radio, newspaper, magazine, and internet.
Internet category was introduced only in 2004 and has being lead by UOL (Universo Online) since then. The hegemony ended this year, when Google ranked in first, […]

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Online advertising grows 60 percent in Bulgaria

 

In 2007 the amount of money spent on online advertising in Bulgaria has increased with about 60 percent, compared to 2006 spending. Total net in 2007 spending was 12 mln leva (around 9 mln USD), representing a significant growth from the 7.5 mln last year. Expectations are for another big rise in spending in 2008 […]

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India ranks third biggest e-shopping nation online today

 

Recent Nielsen survey declares India the 3rd biggest online credi card users. According to the survery Indians …

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World statistics on the number of internet shoppers

  Jan 28, 2008

Nielsen published new statistics on worldwide online shopping trends with indications on the number of consumers adopting Ecommerce and the most purchased items online today.

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Baidu and Alibaba in top ten global search property ranks

  Jan 27, 2008

comScore, Inc., an internet research firm, recently released the Worldwide Search Top 10 report. Two of China’s search properties, Baidu.com and Alibaba.com ranked third and tenth resectively in that report. It was the first time Alibaba made the list with 0.8 percent of the the 66.2 billion searches conducted worldwide in December of 2007. […]

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Internet marketing and advertising conference in Iceland

  Jan 26, 2008

The annual Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference and Expo (RIMC) will be taking place on Friday 8th February at the Hilton Nordica in Reykjavik, Iceland. The conference focuses on Internet marketing and advertising, and the possibilities created by employing a structured promotional approach and focused advertising campaigns.
Speakers include international and Icelandic experts in media and marketing. […]

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People search engine “SBI Business” open in Japan

  Jan 25, 2008

SBI Robo’s social graph engine, SBI Business, is opened for business. When you search for someone’s name, it gives you the search results from search engines (MSN, Google and Yahoo), web and Wikipedia, official profile of the person, and social graph information.
Currently, more than 4000 businesses and 25000 people’s data have been indexed. The users […]

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Secondary Domain Market Study 2007

 

2007 witnessed a significant increase in the domain name market. Volume of sales increased by 60% reaching nearly € 50 million, up from € 30 million.
All the numbers and statistics available from SEDO here.
2007 domain name statistics

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Forrester Research, Inc. data on mobile instant messaging (IM) in Europe

 

A recent study from Forrester Research, Inc. indicates mobile instant messaging (IM) on the rise in Europe with 26.7 million users in 2007 and a projected 80 million users in 2013.
The survey was conducted on a sample of 22.000 consumers in:

France
Germany
Holland
Italy
Spain
Sweden
UK

Three years after the launch of IM mobile operators appear less than enthusiastic about this […]

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European Interactive Advertising Association Online Shoppers Report 2008

  Jan 22, 2008

New research from the EIAA highlights that 40% of all European online shoppers have changed their mind about which brand to buy following research on the web.
The analysis shows how 80% of European internet users have bought a product or service online, up 3% since 2006 and double the 2004 figure.
European online shoppers made 1.3 […]

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Russians Invest $30m in Social Networking Site Badoo

 

Techcrunch reports that social networking site Badoo has received $30m from Russian investor Finam for a 10% stake in the company. The funds are to build the service in Russia, where the social networking market has reached around 10m users in January.
Badoo’s social networking site with photo and video sharing has 12.7 million registered […]

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Japan’s biggest mobile site to open US office

  Jan 21, 2008

DeNA, who owns Japan’s biggest mobile SNS and gaming site “mobaga town”, announced its plan to set up a company in California. This is the first step of their plan to expand the market globally. The detail of the plan (services, opening date, etc.) was not announced.
Mobaga Town (mbga.jp) is currently one of the most […]

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Japan’s SEO market grew 25% in 2007

 

According to Aun Consulting’s report, SEO market had 9960 mil yen sales in 2007 (25% up from 7970 mil yen in 2006).
5710 mil yen: “In-House” SEO marketing
2600 mil yen: Out-sourced SEO marketing
1650 mil yen: Tool, etc.
They think that the SEO market will continue to have a healthy growth in Japan, and become 17.6 bil […]

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Italian Government pulls plug on Italia.it

  Jan 20, 2008

Italia.it, ambitious project of previous Italian Government premier Silvio Berlusconi shut down for good on January 18th after 18 months of agony and …

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Searchers find search engine results less reliable

  Jan 18, 2008

A recent study from the University of Southern California found that a growing number of users find search results less accurate and reliable.
51% of those interviewed declared they trust Search Engine results, down from 62% in 2006.
The study identifies search as a fundamental means to find information and keep up to date, with only 46% […]

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210 million Internet users in China, 84% still not online

 

The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a non profit state network information center founded in 1997, recently released its year end report on development of the Internet in China. Based on that report the number of Chinese Internet users reached 210 million in 2007. This was an increase of more than 73 million over […]

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Search Marketing Expo (SMX) announces China events

  Jan 17, 2008

Third Door Media, Inc. producer of the Search Marketing Expo events, the Search Engine Land news site and the Search Marketing Now webcast series, announced they will produce Search Markekting Expo (SMX) events in Xiamen and Shanghai, China this year. Third Door Media has partnered with TimeV Media, an internet and search marketing conference […]

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Top Italian portal statistics - AUDIWEB report December 2007

  Jan 15, 2008

AUDIWEB publishes statistics for major Italian Portals - an abstract of the data can be downloaded
here.
Source: SPOT and WEB - complete set of data can be downloaded here.
UPDATE:
AUDIWEB Italy major Italian portals Sante J. Achille web marketing italy

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