Speaking at the eyefortravel Sales and Marketing in Travel Europe conference in Berlin, Jan Oetjen, Travelocity’s managing director Germany, said that the search engine revenues would be cut following the likely consolidation in the travel industry. “We all know that travel is a major buyer for the search engines, consolidation would […]

Comments 1

According to the Seattle Times, Microsoft announced it will outsource over 1,000 jobs to China in the near future.
Coming at a time when Google and Microsoft are feuding over Mr. Lee who has extensive experience and connections in the Chinese market, this move may be an effort to improve the goodwill of Microsoft with the […]

Comments 0

Jeteye beta, is an innovative way to search and share search results. Recently launched on August 23rd, jeteye offers the user a completely new way of exploring the web and organizing search results clustered in so-called “jetpacks”.

The jetpack concept is central to a community of users surfing the web and sharing their search results. […]

Comments 1

MIVA Inc. (NASDAQ: MIVA) has announced the first European partnership with Dennis Publishing UK, for the distribution of a customised toolbar for three major brands: Express, Maxim and PC Pro.
The toolbar will be identified by individual branding for each magazine, and provide unique content and search results tailored to fit the different users. The objective […]

Comments 0

The IABC (Internet Advertising Bureau of Canada) reports that online advertising in Canada in 2005 is on track to show a growth of 43% over 2004. Of the 364 million Canadian dollars measured in 2004, a 30% share was dedicated to search. No figures are given for 2005 - but that assuming the same […]

Comments 0

The number of e-commerce dealers in China now exceeds 20 million - according to the China Electronic Commerce Association. 2005 is the 10th year since e-commerce began in China.
20 million traders means that there are more trading in China - than are online in several western Europe countries. A sobering thought.
China boasts […]

Comments 0

Google is now offering Gmail in 9 additional languages including the Thai language character set. Users have always been able to read and write emails in Thai but now the whole Gmail interface can be viewed in the language.
Anyone who has used Gmail understands how revolutionary the service is because of its 2.5GB+ of […]

Comments 2

According to a research report published in August 2001 by Gartner’s Dataquest, the country which can expect the highest growth rates in the Asia-Pacific region was India. From 2001 to 2005, Dataquest expected India to enjoy average subscriber growth of 44 percent a year. At that point, India would have 21.3 million subscribers […]

Comments 2

Recently I came across a statistic that I’ve been long waiting to see, it was published thanks to a recently released Advertising Age report named “HISPANIC FACT PACK: Annual Guide to Hispanic Advertising & Marketing 2005 Edition”. See following table:

This table, which takes into account both English and Spanish speaking Hispanic users, demonstrates how #1, […]

Comments 0

I manage to get back to my homeland (England) occasionally on business and now and then get across the pond to the USA for conferences etc. Each time I go there, I normally catch on the Hotel television an advertisement for MSN Search or billboard or see in newspapers advertisements for the now not so […]

Comments 6

According to a recent study by ARD/ZDF Online, there are now 57.9% of Germans aged from 14 that are online (37.5 Million people). More pensioners and those unemployed have come online as broadband costs sink. The prognosis is for the upward trend to continue as more and more pensioners and unemployed find online access affordable. […]

Comments 0

Wi-Fi access to the internet faces new challenges as anti-terrorism legislation imposes monitoring of public access points. Anonymous access to the internet is now prohibited by a new law requiring personal identification of users logging on to a public network such as those available in internet cafes. Traffic generated by users is […]

Comments 0

The Inside Google Sitemaps blog has just announced that Google Sitemaps’ user interface and documentation are now available in ten additional languages. The newly added languages are:
Brazilian Portuguese
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Korean
Russian
Simplified Chinese
Spanish
Traditional Chinese
Sitemap submisssion is not limited by the language of the site, as always.
Source: Inside Google Sitemaps

Comments 1

An article in today’s Bangkok Post referenced a decision by M-Web to expand its online advertising/marketing business to include mobile phones. M-Web is a major player in the internet economy within Thailand and runs the Thai language portal sanook.com. The news signals an ongoing trend towards using personal mobile devices in combination with internet […]

Comments 1

The European Parliament has been debating how to protect children on the internet and has come up with the idea of a specific domain for children - .kid - reports Reuters.
The domain would be monitored by an independent authority and the thinking is it would be easy to filter.
Seems that concerns about pornography and children […]

Comments 0

Nordiske forskere har fået et legat på DKK 2,5 mio. fra Nordisk Ministerråd til at udvikle og forske i en søgemaskine (Tvärsök), som kan søge på tværs af de nordiske sprog, herunder dansk, svensk, norsk, finsk og islandsk.
De eksisterende søgemaskiner er endnu ikke gode nok til at vise resultater på tværs af sprog og […]

Comments 0

Move over Google, Yahoo! and MSN Orion is coming. Australian PhD student, Ori Allon has patented a new way of searching the web and this new method could dramatically change how search results are provided. Got to love Australian ingenuity.

Comments 0

A fine example of the global village, the small Baltic state of Estonia is allowing its citizens the ability to vote in the upcoming local elections via the internet.
The elections take place on October 16. I will be following it to see how it goes and hope that someone does not try and hack their […]

Comments 0

A multilingual web search project has received a research grant of DKK 2.5 mio ~ 335,000 EUR to research the options of multilingual web search covering Scandinavian languages including Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic.
Receiving the grant will enable the university research group to work (part time) on the project for a while without […]

Comments 0

The story that information given to the Chinese government by Yahoo! is getting major coverage right now. The story initially broke by Reporters Without Borders has been picked up by most new services.
The BBC News gives a good recap of the situation as well as explores the implications of doing business in the rapidly growing […]

Comments 0