Video Research Interactive Inc. (www.videoi.co.jp) has put out the results of Internet Usage report for the week of Sept. 19-25.
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1. Search/Portal Sites - 19.3mil
2. ISPs - 14.7mil
3. Community Sites - 12.9mil
4. IT Information Sites - 15.4mil
5. Corporate Sites - 6.0mil
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1. Yahoo.co.jp - 16.6mil
2. Nifty.com - 7.1mil
3. Rakuten.co.jp - 6.2mil
4. Infoseek.co.jp - 6.1mil
5. Biglobe.ne.jp - 5.8mil
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Yahoo Japan (www.yahoo.co.jp) has officially kicked off its Yahoo Search Japan (search.yahoo.co.jp) on October 3rd.
With new Yahoo Search, the results from the robot search by “Yahoo! Search Technology” (previously known as “page results”) will be displayed first instead of the category search results.

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On the Google map service Taiwan is listed as a province of China which has sparked a protest from the legislators of the pro-independence Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU). They are asking the government to launch a formal protest and the public to demand an apology. Taiwan maintains it is a sovereign, independent state […]

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RIA Novosti reports that there are now 180,000 web-sites on Runet, the Russian Internet domain. These figures were announced this Friday by Mikhail Seslavinsky, the head of the Russian Federal Agency for Print and Mass Media.
He said that the about 400,000 domains registered in the Russian segment of the Internet were a huge resource for […]

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The UK’s Internet Advertising Bureau - IABUK - has published its bi-annual report underlining rocketing online advertising spend in the UK reaching £490.8 million in just half a year. This means that the advertising spend in the UK is now double that in 2003. The spend represents a 5.8% share of marketing […]

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A recent study by the e-Media Institue of Milano has identified a strong 18% growth in online marketing expenditure in 2005 when compared to the previous year.
The study called NON SOLO BANNER was carried out between July and September of this year and identifies a number of key points in the framework of a global […]

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Three ethnic Chinese were accused of making racist remarks on the Internet against members of the Malay community and will be charged under the Sedition Act. This is apparently the first time modern Singapore has used the Sedition Act since it gained independence from Malaysia in 1965. The Sedition Act is being used […]

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With recent speculation on the subject of a Google wallet – it is interesting to see that Yandex have done exactly that. They announced the re-launch of their Yandex Money today, a system similar to PayPal which will enable users to pay, transfer and receive payments over the internet.
Yandex Money is a joint project between […]

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According to a research conducted recently by Gfk Market analysis, the total internet usage in Greece is now stabilised at around 29-30%. Nevertheless it is worth noticing that the usage difference among Athens, other major cities and the province is important. As a result we can talk about a dual speed internet. In Athens usage […]

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As reported previously in Multilingual Search, France is MSN’s second destintation for its new pay per click system known as Adcenter. Well, it’s now live and taking its first clicks in France in French, prior to making its first tentative steps in the US sometime in October.

As French business magazine L’Expansion reports, the […]

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Danish online media site Mediawatch reports today that the Swedish yellow page and search engine company Eniro is rumoured to be about to buy Norwegian search engine Findexa. Mediawatch quotes a financial analyst from Swedbank in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri.
Earlier Eniro stated that they are very much interested in buying up other search properties […]

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Not much is reported on search engine or internet use in the Arab world, relatively speaking, but the Algeria-based Confederation of Finance and Account Executives has published figures giving Algeria 1 million internet users from a 32 million population.
Sources:
albawaba.com middle east news information::Algeria: 1 million internet users

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China is regularly in the news these days as the Chinese market hots up and becomes more search engine competitive - but if you’re in China you may not see that news, following new regulations announced and implemented today, reports Reuters.
Complying with the rules on internet news is somewhat tricky - as the Xinhua news […]

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Bulgarian internet is getting bigger and mature. Many statistics prove that fact. Millions of web users are now online. Thounsand and hundreds of thousands of websites are serving their needs. Still, Bulgarian search engines are nowhere to be seen on the scene….
Currently there are two search engines with their own search bots – www.krasta.com and […]

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As expected, the latest decision to approve the .cat, cultural and linguistic sTLD (sponsored top level domain) domain for Catalunya, has caused quite a bit of commotion coming from a number of angles. So after the first .cat story, it’s only in due hand that a follow up story be written for those of you […]

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Yandex, Russia's most popular search engine, announced today the opening of their portal in Ukraine. This will provide local search, news and information. As Arkady Volozh, General Director of Yandex explains, "Opening a branch in Ukraine will dramatically speed up our technology development for our users there".
Ukraine has a large Russian speaking population […]

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An interesting story has been travelling around the media in Europe this week as Baidu - the leading Chinese search engine - has defended itself from major music labels concerning music downloading. Baidu has strongly protested its innocence claiming that it is only providing search engine type access to sites where downloading is possible […]

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An analyst at Morgan Stanley predicted China’s internet industry will surpass Japan with 10 years, an article at Yahoo! News reported today.
“The $15.1 billion equity value of China’s commercialized Internet, which includes 13 portals, online game services and auction houses, lags the approximately $40 billion equity value of the same market in Japan, said Mary […]

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After some deliberation, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has finally approved the .cat domain, which although not always openly discussed, is causing a bit of a stir in other regions of Spain. The .cat domain—not to be confused with .ct, which would be a regional domain for Catalunya—is a new domain specifically […]

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According to the Search Engine Journal blog, Ask Jeeves has released a new blog search engine for Japan. The launch coincides with the Google announcement earlier this week about the beta of its own blog search.
Apparently there are 3.35 million Japanese blogs as of March 2005. Being a site about different languages and countries, I […]

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