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 […]

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MSN has opened the doors of its new AdCenter in Singapore - its long awaited move into the pay per click market - reports Abondance. The minimum cost per click has been set at 10 cents in Singapore Dollars or 6 cents US.
The key details are that the system enables you to express preferences […]

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A new RSS search engine in Dutch has been launched by Ilse.nl the second most important search engine in the Netherlands. Called Feedo.nl, the new search engine has indexed feeds from 2000 Dutch news sites and the most popular blogs. Results are listed in time order - as per the news pages […]

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Agrarmarkt Austria, Berglandmilch, Lebensministerium, Raiffeisen Ware Austria and Telekom Austria have combined their forces to create a vertical search engine for Austrian agriculture.
Called Agrarinfo, the search facility currently has 7,000 links to agricultural sites and 3000 user addresses.
Behind the new engine lie the Austria food and agriculture ministeries, Austria’s leading telecoms company, a leading bank […]

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Tiscali UK has announced the introduction of a Fair User Policy which aims at preventing heavy downloads - Peer to Peer – during peek usage hours. In an effort to privilege VoIP, video streaming, and faster web surfing, the Fair User Policy will identify so called bandwidth hogs who are then warned […]

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Back in June we discussed the launch of Yandex Direct, from Russia's largest Search Engine. While Yandex still dominates the market with a 52% share, Google has begun to catch up with recent figures showing 16% (a climb of 10% since June).
This competition can not have escaped the attention of Yandex and they […]

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Proximedia of Belgium is predicting that 25% of Belgian companies are likely to switch to using a .be domain name.
European businesses abuzz over ‘.eu’ domain names - INQ7.net

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A US City firm has stated that speculation that Google may attempt to buy Yell in the UK is “plausible”. So a rumour then - whose validity is only really supported by the fact that Google and Yell are already co-operating and which it is only worth considering because of its sheer strategic significance.

If […]

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Recently, Vector21 conducted a very exciting study of online trends in the tourism arena, just for Portugal. Surveying people in Lisbon, Porto and Algarve, Vector21 found that 78.6% confirmed that they are internet users, while 50% stated that they did in fact use the internet to find their hotel. On the other hand, […]

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Seems Google is responding to recent surveys that have Baidu taking a lead in the Chinese market. They have released China Local Search.
News coverage and other blogs have been quick to notice and comment.
Since Biadu went public recently and had its brief rocket from $40 to $150 (though has now settled just below $100), Google […]

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Really, who said Spain is an e-commerce weakling? Sure, there are a number of studies pointing the index finger at Spain and claiming sluggish spending growth, online payment insecurity, and companies’ general reluctantly to spend on pricey ecommerce solutions. And obviously Spain is not playing with the heavyweights. But as covered in a previous story, […]

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If you flip back to an earlier story, when Multilingual Search covered the changes to the complicated .es domain name registration in Spain, you’ll know that according to Red.es the process was simplified to promote the regional registrations just a few months ago. Phase I for official organizations and government agencies will run into […]

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Eric Le Bihan, CEO of Parla.it a France Telecom Company founded 6 months ago, announced in an interview with Punto Informatico a new and aggressive approach to broadband access starting today.
In an attempt to persuade a growing number of curious users, Parla.it has introduced a flat rate for unlimited internet access and VoIP services […]

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The scale of online business development in India is in no way a great achievement in a country with a 1 billion population - but combined they make India an attractive market for global marketers - with 44 million mobile phone subscribers, an active travel sector and online advertising spend exceeding 18 million dollars.
10 million […]

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French President, Jacques Chirac has reinforced the development of a eurocentric search engine, baptised ‘Quaero’ from the Latin, by committing France’s new innovation agency to developing a Franco-German search engine to compete with the ‘Americans’. This makes the development one with teeth and money behind it.
Does it have a chance of competing with the […]

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Google's share of China's Internet search engine market is being rapidly eroded by its Chinese rival Baidu.com Inc, according to new report released today. The report was based on figures from Xinhau, the quasi-government China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) and reported on by the Search Engine Herald.
Baidu.com has managed to increase its market […]

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The Bulgarian country Top Level Domain (TLD) ‘bg’ is registering slow growth in number of active domains in 2005. At the end of August 2005 the number of registered ‘bg’ TLDs is only 4092. The growth rate now is a couple domains per day, which is slow, compared to other European countries, and far […]

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The Times Online reports that a British firm is creating a new search engine to compete with Google. Previewseek has launched a beta search engine which claims to offer the most advanced search technology in the world - albeit currently just in beta.

The search engine shows a preview of the web sites it is […]

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Mobile Content Delivery (MCD) is a hot topic in Russia. While recent research puts the internet audience at 16% (17.6m) of the population, 52% of Russians own a mobile phone. Better still, this group has embraced mobile content at rates which put Europe to shame. It is easy to see why this medium is […]

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Google launched a Proprietary Messaging System called Google Talk late yesterday. Google Talk offers Instant Messaging and Audio and requires a Gmail account.
Source: Google

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