I am not going to give you some statistics about which search engines are popular in Turkey… Google is top as in the UK and Yahoo and MSN come after that. Other so called search engines like rehber or iyi net are just a few simple directories. So, Google is the key and main search […]

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The research group comScore has released their first report looking at worldwide search activity, carried out over the month of August. Interesting reading to those dealing with multilingual marketing and a sign of the growing importance of this sector.
The Asia-Pacific region, which includes large markets such as China, Japan and India, saw 258 million […]

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According to Net Ratings’ “Ad Relevance” report, the banner advertising on web had 6.2% decrease in August from July.
The decrease was not just in the amount of money spent on the advertising, but also the number of advertisers (-4.1%), number of campaigns (-4.8%) and number of banners (-6.5%), all had decrease in August.
The report also […]

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Futurezone brings us the news that the online advertising market in Germany is rocketing and expected to exceed 800 million Euros in 2007. That’s a 67% over the 480 million Euros seen in 2006. The figures are from the Bundesverbands Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM) run by Germany’s national newspaper “Die […]

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With very little pzazz, Google Adwords has started to feed the pay per click advertising to searches on top French search engine Voila.fr and the also significant Orange.fr - as reported by Abondance. This means Yahoo Search Marketing has lost an important French partner as they previously powered Voila.
According to the Aposition and Weborama […]

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Carabinieri are one of The two police forces in Italy.
Carabinieri.it has won the eContent Award 2007 for the second time in a row. The award winning site is home to the popular Italian police force Carabinieri for the quality of their multimedia content and creativity.
The eContent award was announced yesterday in Venice.
SOURCE: ANSA
Italy

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A recent study by a researcher at Brown University places Portugal in 7th place worldwide when it comes to best practices in e-government. This represents a 41 places rise over the result the country had obtained last year. The study analyzed 1687 sites in 198 countries, in all 5 continents.
This result comes as no surprise […]

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Japan.Internet.com and goo Research announced the results of their survey about the Second Life in Japan. The survey was conducted against 1087 Internet users in Japan. While Second Life has been receiving many media attentions, it seems that not many people are fully aware of what the Second Life is. See some of the data […]

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NetRatings announced the results of its “August Internet Usage” report. According to the report, NicoNicoDouga (nicovideo.jp) gained the total usage minutes by 52%, and had higher “average use time” and “average number of visits” per person than that of YouTube in August.
Since it’s opening in March with an unique feature that visitors can post comments […]

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As reported in February, ICANN is continuing attempts to delete the .SU (Soviet Union) domain extension. Pressure has increased after the successful decommissioning of the .YU (Yugoslavia) address this week, where operators for the new extensions .RS for Serbia and .ME for Montenegro agreed to migrate existing users.
ICANN has again, “urged the current .SU […]

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It might not be a surprice but India is booming, the country might only be a sub-continent, but it is a mega-country to be in regards of internet usage, but the rise is slower than expected. According to a recent “India Online Overview report” done by eMarketer India has “only” reached 10.5 million broadband households […]

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Google moon just got updated and now boost great features such as higher-resolution map imagery, text search, photos and stories from all the Apollo landings. This is great, but if they can do the moon they must be able to do Iceland properly? For good maps of my beautiful home country Iceland (Google earth style) […]

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Finnish newcomer Floobs.com is to launch a tv-channel style video site where anyone can upload their videos. The site will include video feeds. Currently the site is undergoing testing in the Finnish language - but an English-language version is to follow in November.
We’ve seen a rush of video-sites in the last few weeks […]

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Yahoo has been successful in gaining a social networking partner for its UK and Irish advertisers - namely Bebo. Bebo is particularly interesting in Ireland where it has one million subscribers… a whacking proportion of the population. If you’re Irish - you must be on Bebo! And it is Yahoo which powers […]

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China Yahoo launched a Lifetime Emailbox offering unlimited capacity for users in China. The domain name is @yahoo.cn and the email offering was available as of September 10th. The email servers will be hosted in China based on local media reports. According to Shen Jian Ming, vice president of China Yahoo, the Lifetime Emailbox is […]

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French Financial Times subsidiary - Les Echos - reports that 1 million people started buying online in the second quarter of 2007 compared to the first with the result that 4% of all retail is now transacted online in France. The number of active online merchants in the same period has grown by […]

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The .EU domain registrar management organisation, EURid has suspended 10,000 EU domain names which have been apparently legally registered by a Chinese woman - reports out-law. EURid has the power to remove the domain names from the woman - but has said that it would prefer a court to do it.
According to […]

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Estonia’s first ever search marketing conference (E! 10) will be held at 2pm on September 13th at the Sõprus Cinema in Tallinn’s old town. 250+ people are expected for the event organised by Altex Marketing
Speakers and their subjects are:
Robin Gurney, altex marketing: Driving search engine users to your company website.
Kain Kalju, Neti Webmaster: Search engines […]

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According to Futurezone from ORF.at, for the first time the number of internet users in Austria aged over 14 exceeds two thirds of the total population at 68% representing 4.6 million people. Intriguingly, the nature of internet use has been changing in Austria more towards multimedia use with 27% of Austrians having accessed […]

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This week Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia decided to remove the ability for webmasters to view incoming links to their sites (or backlinks as they are commonly known). Previously this had been possible by two methods, the first using a search operator [link=”www.domain.com”] and secondly through their advanced search page.
The function was […]

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