The official statistics body of the European Union - known as Eurostat - announced its 30 nation report on internet usage throughout Europe on Friday. Report author Morag Ottens, concludes “In most countries internet penetration has reached saturation point in large enterprises” - he also found that 48% of large European enterprises had purchased via […]

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Web.de signed up to an acquistion by United Internet on Friday for 200 million Euros and a 5.8% shareholding in United Internet. The deal can’t go ahead until it’s been approved by the German monopolies office - it also still requires the approval of the Web.de annual general meeting. Report by Austrian TV’s Futurezone site.
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For some months a group of search marketers around Europe have been drafting a constitution and plans for an association to represent search marketers.
Following the success of the SMA-UK, Mikkel deMib Svendsen and Andy Atkins-Krüger have been working with Sante Achille from Italy, Ben van den Bergh from the Netherlands, Olivier Guillo of France, Thomas […]

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An IAB Nederland study reported by Digimedia confirms earlier reports in this blog on Belgian statistics, that the market is somewhat lagging behind. According to the study, spend per person online during 2004 in France was 54 Euros, in the UK 42 Euros and Belgium just 8 Euros. The number of advertisers has gone from […]

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The Dutch Interactive Advertising Bureau reports that the online advertising market grew by 34% in the first quarter of 2005 to 21.5 million Euros.
Emerce, which brings us the report, explains that the bureau brings together 18 organisations including TradeDoubler, MSN, Ilse, Lycos and Wanadoo but doesn’t yet include Google or Yahoo, something which IAB Director, […]

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CEO of Ask Jeeves has revealed to Reuters plans to roll out the butler throughout western Europe.
Following the IAC acquisition, Ask certainly has more capital at its disposal so it is not surprising to read speculation of a buy-out of Excite Italia from Tiscali, and Spanish expansion. Where next? The biggest single language web corpus […]

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GroupWeb.com has opened a new Hungary newswire service at www.hungarynewswire.com. The Budapest-based GroupWeb.com runs GroupWeb Emailwire.com.

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The Jerusalem Post brings us the news that Israelis are well connected to the internet with 73% of homes having a computer and 58% an internet connection.
The survey was carried out by the Tel Aviv University’s Netvision Institute for Internet Research. Heavy users were found to be generally aged under 29. 43% of internet users […]

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Women are now in the majority of web users in Belgium who access the internet at least once per month - up to the age of 34 that is! Overtall men still represent 55% of regular users and women 45%. The difference is in the age group between 15 - 34 where 1,120,000 women surf […]

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Russia’s leading home grown search engine, Yandex , has launched a new pay per click service for Russia along the lines of the existing Google service.
Thanks to Nick Wilsdon of e3internet which brought us this story - Yandex so far having issued no public comment - as soon as they do we will bring you […]

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The Kuwait News Agency - reported in the China-based online newspaper People’s Daily Online - is to launch an arabic language search engine to archive arabic sites on the web.
The news was revealed by the Kuwaiti Director General of the country’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the world information forum in Cairo.

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Two organisations from Belgium - Insites and ISPA - which publish statistical information on the country’s web use, are to join forces to deliver better information for web marketers.
Insites publishes the report known as the Belgium Internet Mapping twice a year. The latest figures - known as ‘BIM 12′ - were published in December and […]

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Ask Jeeves is reported to be on the verge of buying Excite Italia from Tiscali for 10 million Euros. Ask was recently purchased by IAC and may well have deep enough pockets now to expand its linguistic offering. It only recently entered the Spanish market with its own Ask brand and this would be a […]

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Dutch Cowboys tell us that Zoeken.nl has followed Google’s lead in changing their logos to suit special days. Google changes its logo to reflect national days - but this means that their logo changes throughout the world. Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineWatch, has suggested that Google should create local identities for nationally important days. Zoeken.nl has […]

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American car hire organisation, Thrifty.com, has translated its site into French, German and Spanish - a sign that more of the larger American travel organisations are recognising the need to speak the language of their customers.
Unfortunately, 75% of the page titles remain in English, as do the keywords and page descriptions so they’ve left something […]

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The Austrian Internet Monitor (AIM) has published its 2005 first quarter figures for use of the internet in Austria with further figures confirming the continuing growth in use of the web. This latest report particuarly reinforces the point that, as the internet becomes more accessible, the degree of daily use also increases with 37% of […]

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The very first .eu domain has gone live on the web today - but don’t get your cheque books out yet - this is the registration organisation itself - EURid at www.eurid.eu - which is responsible for managing the new European top level domain name.
Nevertheless, a significant milestone has been passed with the first .eu […]

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A new search engine Ketady has been launched in France aiming to provide intelligent search results for users. The idea behind Ketady is that humans respond to humans - rather than machines giving approximated answers via algorithms.
A registration is required - and searchers questions are referred to ‘experts’ who carry out the necessary search and […]

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Representatives of Google started a tour of the press in March to put forward the ‘Google Print’ plan - the project to digitally capture the world’s libraries online, reports the French newspaper ‘Le Figaro’ in its online edition.
The Google print project aims to digitise over 15 million books and 4.5 billion pages of text from […]

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The Enigma Gfk research group in Wiesbaden has released figures which show that now more than one third of all Germans buy online. During the last year the number has grown by 15% to 23 million which is more than one third of the total population over 14 years.
Of web users, those who actually buy […]

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