Quote Media has decided to sell both Vinden.nl and Zoeken.nl back to their original founder Jan-Willem Tusveld following a decision that the sector was not their core business, reports Emerce.
Jan-Willem Tusveld founded Vinden.nl in 1998 selling it later to the investment group Reggeborgh - who then sold it to Quote Media. Vinden.nl is currently the […]

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The ACSEL panel, which brings together the leading e-commerce companies of France with figures then aggregated by Price Waterhouse Coopers, is forecasting a total e-commerce turnover for panel members this year of 10 billion Euros.
Their latest report shows that the 24 members of ACSEL saw an increase of 54.8% in turnover to 671.2 million Euros […]

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A study carried out by Le Journal du Net has concluded that Google is still ahead of Yahoo and MSN in terms of the relevancy of results presented - but the gap has narrowed between Google and nearest rival, Yahoo, especially in certain specific categories. But MSN still has some catching up to do.
Le Journal […]

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Overture and Lycos are to work closer together in Europe, it has been disclosed. Following an agreement which is to run for several years into the future, Lycos will link its portal more closely with Overture in Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands using the content match system.

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Shocking figures from Nielsen//Netratings suggest that online home users in France and Sweden are the biggest gamblers in Europe with both countries seeing reaches of 22.1%. Germany, the UK and Switzerland had a similar reach of 14 - 14.5% - whilst the Italians and Spanish haven’t really caught onto the trend to date with reach […]

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Volker Gläser, search director for Yahoo Deutschland, says that local search is more significant in Germany than the UK or France sometimes reaching levels as high as 30% of all searches. He puts this down largely to the division of the country into “Länder”.
In February, Yahoo launched in beta a local search facility across Germany […]

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Infospace - a search engine which presents the results of others mixed depending on the type of phrase searched for - has seen a 41% increase in unique visitors in its last financial year 2004 and a growth in turnover of 89%.

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Wanadoo has announced a pay per click system for contextual sponsored links on Wanadoo and Mappy which has been nicknamed ‘Wanadooclic”. The links will be bought via a bidding system. The announcement was made by Luc Tran Thang who is the Director responsible for the Wanadoo portals. It should be noted that Wanadoo already features […]

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Nielsen//NetRatings global netview analysis shows signficant year-on-year increases in the number of hours per month spent online in all European countries monitored. Outside Europe, Hong Hong achieved the highest increase of 25% - whilst the US dropped.
Most impressive are the figures for France (19%) and Italy (15%) where web users have significantly increased their dependence […]

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According to Nielsen//NetRatings, active home use of the internet increased quite dramatically in the UK in February2005 to 11% when compared with November 2004 - France and Germany saw smaller increases of 1.6% and 1.2% respectively whilst Sweden dropped by almost 3%.

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Ask Jeeves has broadened its multilingual offering by launching a new Spanish index - this will give the organisation - currently negotiating its own acquisition by IAC corporation - to compete more effectively with Google, Yahoo, MSN worldwide. It is not surprising they have chosen Spanish thanks to the growing importance of the online Hispanic […]

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According to German survey organisation Wahlen Online, the number of internet users at home has grown to 61% in the last quarter - a relatively small increase over the previous quarter. Around 34% of the survey respondents access the internet through broadband or DSL whilst 34% are using ISDN - leaving just 26% of German […]

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According to figures from Audiweb by Nielsen//NetRatings, Google.it has the greatest reach in Italy of work and home users reaching 57.3%, Libero.it is second at 49.5%, Virgilio.it is third with 48.3% and MSN.it fourth with 36.2%.
This makes Italy once of the hotter locations in the battle for the top slots with Yahoo not making an […]

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Of course, it’s the first of April and the day of the ‘Gros poissons’ or April fool in France. Not surprising then that Abondance has announced a new TV channel called Google TV. Could it really happen?

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