The fact that I’ve been silent for some time, doesn’t mean that the Spanish internet isn’t churning up stories. In fact, there are quiet a few. I’ll start with the latest and for many one of the most impressive. If anything, it’s a good sign for Spain and will have plenty of local internet entrepreneurs […]

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Ydreams and Sapo announced a new product than allows users to access the Internet from home, without using a traditional computer system.
The product is called “Sapohome” and it consists of a touch sensitive screen that allows access to information in a geographical context. This means that the user researches for news, maps, weather, restaurants […]

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Google’s CEO Eric Schinidt has visited Korea this week to attend the Seoul Digital Forum 2007. “It’s obvious to me that Korea is a great laboratory of the digital age,” Schmidt said in a speech at the Seoul Digital Forum. On Tuesday, Schmidt met with Daum Communications Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 Internet […]

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Miami will held the second edition of SES Latino next month. This is the only SEM conference targeting US Hispanics and latin america audiences and companies.
The event is increasing its popularity among brazilian professionals, and all top SEM agencies will be presenting: HotList, MediaContacs, MídiaClick and MídiaDigital will have its tops executives in several […]

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The most popular 25 languages of Multilingual-Search.com in 2007 in terms of the percentage of the site’s visitors are:-
English (United States) 45.73%
English (United Kingdom) 19.56%
English 3.28%
French 3.12%
German 2.80%
Spanish 2.17%
Russian 1.77%
Italian 1.31%
Japanese 1.30%
Swedish 1.26%
Chinese (China) 1.26%
Dutch (Netherlands) 1.24%
Portuguese 1.05%
English (Australia) 1.00%
Bulgarian 0.91%
English (Canada) 0.86%
Hebrew 0.76%
Greek 0.71%
Portuguese (Brazil) 0.68%
Polish 0.61%
Turkish 0.61%
Korean 0.60%
Danish 0.47%
Chinese (Taiwan) 0.37%
English (Ireland) 0.36%
Surprisingly, the most dramatically increasing languages of visitors (below) to the site are Thai- and Portuguese-speakers as well as Spanish. Here’s the complete list where […]

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Jaap Favier of Forrester ended his keynote speech to the first Hamburg AdTech by saying that, after all the research he’s done, Second Life will become the new Google.

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Yandex has secured a contract with the company behind LiveJournal in Russia to display their contextual adverts on users blogs.
LiveJournal is very popular in Russia with almost 1m blogs currently hosted on the system and a reported 3.3m visitors per month (compared to 6m visitors/month for the entire LiveJournal Network). Although the LiveJournal brand […]

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RTP, the public TV broadcaster in Portugal has now in YouTube a partner to publish its videos online.
RTP follows in the footsteps of other European TV broadcasters, like BBC and Deutsche Welle.
In a dedicated YouTube area, users can access some of the most popular videos from many programs, ranging from dramas to comedies. […]

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E-consultancy reports that Index Ventures, Holtzbrinck Ventures and Cisco Systems have invested £9.1m (approx. $18m) into Ozon.ru, the Russian ‘Amazon’.
Ozon.ru intends to use the capital to develop its logistics, expand product lines and establish new distribution centres across Russia. Founded in 1998, Ozon.ru is the most popular e-commerce site in Russia, with over 120,000 unique […]

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The video search engine “Fooooo” is now available in 11 languages including Russian, French, Chinese, and English. Fooooo started its beta version in Japanese in March 2007 offering the search services from more than 28 million movies/videos from 50+ sites in the world. Currently, 40% of the users are accessing the site from […]

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SEMPO’s overall efforts this year is to focus on three main objectives: launching and expanding a search marketing training program, expanding SEMPO’s global presence, and continuing to build on its industry-leading research.
For SEMPO, global expansion starts with individual members forming a Working Group in a given country or region. In 2005, there were geo-specific working […]

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The agency controlled online advertising market in Bulgaria grows 110% from 2005 to 2006 shows a recent study by Investor.bg. Advertisers spend 5.6 million leva (3.8 mln USD) through advertising agencies and media shops during 2005. In 2006 spending increases rapidly to 12.5 mln. leva (8.6 mln USD) and is expected to reach 20 mln. leva in 2007 (13.7 mln. USD). This implies a 60% growth in internet advertisng for 2007.

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The Business Standard reports on attempts that Yahoo is making to ‘improve its relevance to India’ by adding cities and listings portals. Both Yahoo Our City and Yahoo! India Maps are at the beta testing stage - but will help Yahoo’s India based users to search locations comprising of 170 cities, 4,785 towns and […]

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Sapo Maps, the Portuguese map service from Sapo.pt, now allows the users to plan itineraries, and choose different routing options (quicker, shorter, on foot).
The user interface also improved over the last version, displaying a two column scheme, with much of the space available for the actual map data. AJAX is now used to […]

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SMX just launched that they will do an event in Stockholm 30th of Oct and 1st of Nov. this will be right after the emetrics two day event, so I am sure people might be able to buy a ticket for all four days if they are really eager to get started in search and […]

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Google Inc., the world’s leading search engine, has opened an office in Singapore as a hub for its Southeast Asia operations including Australia and New Zealand. Google realizes the importance and growth potential of the region and has learned that localization is critical, especially in this part of the world. Google also sees the […]

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ABC Electronic audit says that the busiest ‘audited’ website in the Arabic language is the Dubai-based news site Al Arabiya.net with 22 million page views in November 06 - the audit period. Al Arabiya.net was launched in March 2003 as a satellite channel giving 24 hour Arabic-language news across 5 continents. Its portal-style website also features an Arabic-language search engine and claims to have over one million page views per day.

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Baidu.com, China’s leading search engine, reported first quarter profits soared 143 percent on strong traffic growth and higher advertising revenues. Profits rose to $11.1 million up from $4 million in the same quarter of 2006. Total revenues rose more than 103 percent.
According to iResearch, an internet market research company located in Shanghai, Baidu.com has […]

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Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications just announced the status of “Bot Measure Project”, which started in last December.
In 2006, they collected 974,999 bot programs and found 1,711 programs, which were not detected by commercial softwares.
They are providing softwares to remove 1,259 viruses (from the above 1,711 programs) […]

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According to the latest research by Japan.Internet.com and JR Tokai Express Research, more than 65% of mobile search users in Japan are using Yahoo mobile search. It also shows that more than 35% of mobile search users are using Google mobile search function.
Yahoo is listed in Softbank’s official menu, and Google is listed in […]

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