Business Day reports that online travel bookings for airline travel are rising sharply through 2005.
Abacus International of Singapore says that “these figures are encouraging but are by no means the peak.” Internet penetration levels are continuing to rise in the Asia-Pacific region and more travellers are choosing the online route to their tickets - […]

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The sale of Web.de to United Internet has hit a snag with two shareholders objecting to the deal.
The German federal monopolies office had already approved the sale - as had the extraordinary meeting of the company. The board announced the objections on Friday - but still expects the deal to go ahead. The […]

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Juxt Consult - an Indian research agency - has published a set of 5 reports on the Indian sub-continent - including one which shows that internet use in the sub-continent remains below 5% on average - but that’s still 22.7 million users.
The largest slice of internet users is business related covering around 54% of all […]

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The potential in China is big - no surprise then that Google, MSN, and Yahoo are falling over each other to get a foothold in mainland China and that the runaway success of the Baidu flotation has mouths gaping.
Baidu is the lead search engine in China - with Google holding a stake too - but […]

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Yellow Pages—so familiar, so practical and SO trendy. Have you noticed? Yellow Pages have been in the spotlight now that local search is picking up speed. So much in fact that all the buzz has resulted in a very complete third edition of the Kelsey Group study on Yellow Pages, “Global Yellow Pages(TM) 2005: The […]

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Clearly the big news this week is PPC, all across the board (Ask Jeeves, Yahoo and MSN). The new products that will inevitably keep everyone busy adjusting and transforming their campaigns. But life goes on, and other news, although small and overshadowed, ought to be brought into the light, if only just for a moment.
Yesterday, […]

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Seems AOL is joining the popular push to attract more Latin traffic. They have announced a new TV and radio campaign whose goal is to draw more Latinos to AOL.
The Spanish speaking market seems to very popular right now.

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Former President Clinton will be back for an internet related visit to China. But that’s probably not the biggest news. What’s more interesting is the event he will be speaking at. On September 10th, Alibaba, China’s largest and by far the most successful Chinese e-commerce company is hosting China’s Internet Summit with a global signature. […]

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Interesting news to take note of out of Chile: Looks like the penetration of internet usage in the country is somewhat stuck at 36%, only one point up from data collected in 2003. But it’s nothing to get sunken up about; Chile is in fact leading the Latin American pack and runs in step with […]

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According to the Technorati blog, you’re all welcome to search for blogs in a total of ten languages (Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish). This new search addition is still in beta (ie. there are still some mixed language results coming up) and works only in keyword searches. But it […]

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How does a 527-percent growth sound? Surreal. But true. Last year Slovakia had 8,275 broadband internet connections and now, they’re looking at 51,869. With that number, coming to a 1% penetration of the entire population, they are clearly far behind their European neighbors, but definitely plenty to get excited about. The EU25 average is 8.6% […]

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Congratulations on the deal between MIVA and Eniro.
Thank you both for taking time out to talk to Multilingual Search and answer a few questions about the deal with MIVA and Eniro.
RASMUS: A lot has happened with Espotting in Scandinavia since launching your service a couple of years ago. Could you maybe tell us a bit […]

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There has been plenty of talk about Ask Jeeves’ plans and progress in the U.S., but Ask Jeeves is also keeping plenty of heads turning in the European market. Spain is a recent endeavor with plenty of action to this day to keep the interested on the ball. Recently, MSE covered Ask Jeeves’ strategic agreements […]

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Google annouced it purchased Akwan Information Technologies, a Brazilian search company. Google plans on establishing a Research and Development division there and to use it as a base to spearhead their Latin American efforts.

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Telecom Italia and Tiscali announced the launch of IP tv starting at a T.B.D. date some time between September and November of this year.
Telecom Italia is now broadcasting Video On Demand via Rosso Alice 4 Mbit ADSL which they are planning to use for the newly announced IP tv service. The service will initially be […]

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Seems a new hire at Google, formerly of Microsoft, has created a stir and has been served with a lawsuit by MSN.
ZDNet reports that Kai-Fu Lee is being sued by Microsoft for “the confidentiality and non-competition agreements he signed when he began working” and was now disregarding.

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Interesting article about the impact of new laws in Canada. Search engines in Canada will have to be very aware of copyright laws, though the international nature of the web may make it hard to enforce.
The only possibility is that the engines create different submitting procedures for the .ca version of the business.

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Today there is more news of strategic agreements in the Spanish market. This time Yahoo is in the picture. Yahoo Iberia will now be offering their popular email service, messenger and Kelkoo product search on the portal of one of Spain´s leading television channels, Antena3. In turn, Antena3 will become an additional well of information […]

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Baidu is reportedly about to float increasing the speculation about Google’s position in China. Baidu is the leading Chinese search engine - and one which Google bought a 4% stake in during 2004.
It is known that Google CEO - Eric Schmidt - flew to China last week and there are rumours that Google will attempt […]

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Yahoo is heading towards a Polish launch - at least that’s the conclusion of the Warsaw Business Journal which reports that Yahoo has launched Polish-language email accounts with 1 GB capacity.
Currently, the Yahoo domain for Poland - pl.yahoo.com redirects to Yahoo’s UK site.
Yahoo currently operates native-language portals in Europe as shown by the map on […]

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