The Danish tv station TV2 has quietly launched a new search engine called TV2 Fredo. The search engine presumably offers contactinfo, website links(!), maps and a link to a gift certificate partner.
TV2 describes the search engine as follows (my rough translation):

TV 2|Fredo is a search service for people that wants to shop goods, services or […]

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The Moscow Times is carrying a report on the recent surge in London IPO listings for Russian companies.
Seven Russian IPOs raised $5 billion on the London Stock Exchange in 2005, making Russia the biggest source of international primary offerings in London. Bankers estimate up to 25 flotations this year will raise several times that […]

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The Portal Visir.is, owned by Iceland largest media company, just added to their services “Yellow Pages” called ALLT. This is a addition to their other services in other more “traditional” media. There is currently no none Icelandic search. The company is expanding to Denmark with a similar concept.

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Offline gambling has exploded in Russia in the last three years, particularly in Moscow. It is an estimated $5 billion annual business and draws players to both high-class casinos and the one-rouble slots in small arcades. Russia, the world’s second-largest country by population with an all-cash culture that favours spending over saving may soon rival […]

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The first Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo to be held in China wrapped up and recieved great feedback from the participants. There were approximately 600 attendees at this event and next year promises to bring out even more. Here’s some notes from the keynote speakers, Jack Ma of Yahoo! China and Johnny Zhou […]

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Thanks, Andy for inviting me to contribute to the Search Technology area. Well, since this is my first post, this one is a bit informal. I’ll try to use a reporting style in my next one.
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El Nuevo Día (http://www.endi.com) from Puerto Rico, one of the most important newspapers in the Caribbean region, is featuring today […]

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As my “Hello World” post at this blog, I’ll start with the disclaimer that I’m a firm believer that in most things, the Internet overall not being the least, the US leads the way. Now I don’t mean only in technology, Internet Penetration Rate, investments, etc., but also in social behaviour and what characterizes product […]

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ADEx Nielsen estimates report online marketing expenditure on the rise in Italy up 51,3% over a 12 month span from January 2005
to the same month of this year. Marketing & Publicity investments in Italy reach € 601,4 Million with an overall 2,1% increase. Billboard publicity fell sharply (-7,3%) while online investment confirms a positive trend […]

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Yandex, Russia’s most popular search engine portal, have announced record profits for last year. Net profit of the company in 2005 was $13,6m, and turnover (revenue) was $35,6m (on US GAAP, without including NDS). Those figures have doubled since 2004.
They put this growth down to the wider expansion of the internet in Russia, they […]

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On March 15, Yahoo! Japan opened the beta version of Keyword input assist.
When a search user types the first several character of the search word, it will display a list of related keywords. This function is available to the Windows users with IE 5.5+ and Firefox 1.0+, and Mac OS X users […]

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Pandia reports on a new censorship comparison tool developed by researchers at Indiana University. The tool compares the preeminance of words featured in the top ten results of Yahoo or Google by displaying words graphically giving weight to those terms which are more frequent - the end result is a graphic somewhat reminscent of […]

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In August, we discussed Chile’s move to internationalize the .cl domain, by allowing for non-english letters, such as “ñ”, “ü” and 7 other international characters. It was certainly an exciting step.
But for global internet users and companies as a whole, ICANN’s announcement of a plan to start testing domain names that are entirely composed […]

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The conference season in Russia has taken a great leap forward today with the announcement of a new summit targeted at RuNet e-commerce. The conference has been organised by the leading lights of Russian internet – including the search engines Yandex, Rambler and Mail.ru.
The agenda for the conference is copied below, some very interesting […]

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The Italian Communications Authority has recently deliberated and approved one of the first set of rules and regulations addressing the VoIP sector in rapid growth.
The newly approved legislation introduces the prefix 5 to identify so called “nomad” telecommunications which use the Internet to make and receive telephone calls. The peculiarity of VoIP-In telephone […]

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Japan Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has established Japan Blog Association on February 28, 2006.
Its purpose is to perform research, study, support, etc. about Blog, and to provide the information and environment for Blog users to enjoy blogging freely.
MIAC plans to provide the services and activities through the organization from February 28, 2006 […]

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With ADSL lines increasing to 8MB in the US and Europe it is easy to forget that many Russian users still access the internet using a dial up connection. However research carried out this month by the ROMIR group has noted that Ethernet access has over taken dial-up modem access this year for the first […]

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ROMIR, the independent research group has released their periodical results for internet usage, which show that at the end of 2005, RuNet users share made up 17% of the whole adult population of Russia. While this was a disappointing dip on the 3rd quarter 2005 results of 19%, usage has grown 4% since 2004.

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Bulgarian internet advertising market made a huge step forward by increasing its revenues with 81% last year. Recent market studies show rise in online advertising spending from 3.1 million leva (approx. 1.9 million USD) to over 5.6 million leva (approx. 3.42 million USD). The results were announced on a press conference hold by […]

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According to Chinatechnews Yahoo’s ambitions in China are enormous - targeting a 200% in market share following the successful integration of Alibaba.
Tian Jian is reported as saying that Yahoo aims to become the “top search and lifestyle brand in China”. Good luck Yahoo! You’re not going to be alone in that […]

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Starting today you’ll find here updated content about Brazil’s interactive media market, with focus on SEM.
As an introduction, here’s the internet landscape in Brazil:
- 31 million users (as per Jan.2006; ranks #7 in the world)
- users spend 18 hours online per month (as per Jan.2006; ranks #1 in the world)
- 3,4 million broadband users
- online […]

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