A new report called ‘e-family-2005′ of the Association Federcomin, shows more and more Italian families are investing in broad band connections to the internet. An increase has been registered in digital cameras, DVDs, satellite connections, and broad band internet access. The study shows a significant drop in purchasing of PCs and cell phones. Italians are […]

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The Google blog has announced that the desktop search tool is now available in a wider range of languages comprising of French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Japanese and Korean.
Google Blog: Speaking of search

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The Greek alphabet is to make its way into Greek domain names from July 4, the country’s telecommunications authorities EETT reported on Tuesday. The step is intended to increase the use of new technologies in Greece.
At the present time, Greek web sites only use the Latin alphabet for domain names - due to both technical […]

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Belgian web connections are more expensive than those in the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, France, the UK, Germany and Italy, says a study by Belga’s Test Achat.
Reported by Expatica

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The far east still heads the league table of most broadband connected countries with South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan all in the top 6. The far east will overtake North America and Europe in the next few years for ‘connected households’, reports eMarketer.
Intriguingly Canada and four European countries help to beat the US […]

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Mr. Olu, the Will Smith of search engines, has created a new search engine for the world - Big Clique - in fact covering 17 languages from day one an amazingly ambitious undertaking!
Big Clique claims to offer ‘Just search…’ and nothing else. The choice of languages is intriguing comprising English, Italian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, […]

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BelSoc.org has launched a social search engine in the French language in Belgium focusing principally on professionals in the ’social-medical’ sector.
Moteur Social claims to only feature pages from Belgium, in the social fields and principally in French language. More of a directory than algorithmic search engine, the intriguing thing about the project is its claim […]

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Excite Italia is now officially part of Ask Jeeves Inc. Tiscali, a major European Internet Company, had acquired 70% of Excite Italia in March 2001, and purchased the residual 30% in April 2002.

The value of the acquisition is estimated to be € 10 million. The disposal of Excite Italia is yet another step of Tiscali […]

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China is a large country. So even a small percentage of web users produces a big number - 98.8 million users according to an official in the Ministry of Information. Not surprising then that the leading US web-based businesses are falling over themselves to get into the Chinese market.
Just yesterday, Amazon announced its plans to […]

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The German search engine Seekport has moved its UK search engine out of Beta. Seekport launched in the UK in December and claims to offer more UK-oriented results - partly thanks to a team of editors who quality check the engine’s results.
Testing of the algorithm suggests that it operates quite differently to other the American […]

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ImiTiki - the search marketing conference brand which normally runs conferences in Paris, is to run a seminar for the first time in Lyon sponsored by Google. The seminar will be on the 16th of June with the morning focusing on organic search techniques and the afternoon on Google’s adwords.

Reported by Abondance

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The Saudi-based Dar Al Riyadh Holding Group has launched a new beta version English-speaking search engine built by Tajseed Solutions.
New english-speaking Arabic search engine launched in beta
Deepy has a look of Microsoft (that search button…?) and the now standard Google format. However, it has a very neat spelling feature which corrects you as you type.
This […]

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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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