With recent speculation on the subject of a Google wallet – it is interesting to see that Yandex have done exactly that. They announced the re-launch of their Yandex Money today, a system similar to PayPal which will enable users …

According to a research conducted recently by Gfk Market analysis, the total internet usage in Greece is now stabilised at around 29-30%. Nevertheless it is worth noticing that the usage difference among Athens, other major cities and the province is …

As reported previously in Multilingual Search, France is MSN’s second destintation for its new pay per click system known as Adcenter. Well, it’s now live and taking its first clicks in France in French, prior to making its …

Danish online media site Mediawatch reports today that the Swedish yellow page and search engine company Eniro is rumoured to be about to buy Norwegian search engine Findexa. Mediawatch quotes a financial analyst from Swedbank in the Swedish newspaper Dagens …

Not much is reported on search engine or internet use in the Arab world, relatively speaking, but the Algeria-based Confederation of Finance and Account Executives has published figures giving Algeria 1 million internet users from a 32 million population.

Sources:
albawaba.com middle …

China is regularly in the news these days as the Chinese market hots up and becomes more search engine competitive - but if you’re in China you may not see that news, following new regulations announced and implemented today, reports …

Bulgarian internet is getting bigger and mature. Many statistics prove that fact. Millions of web users are now online. Thounsand and hundreds of thousands of websites are serving their needs. Still, Bulgarian search engines are nowhere to be seen on …

As expected, the latest decision to approve the .cat, cultural and linguistic sTLD (sponsored top level domain) domain for Catalunya, has caused quite a bit of commotion coming from a number of angles. So after the first .cat story, it’s …

Yandex, Russia's most popular search engine, announced today the opening of their portal in Ukraine. This will provide local search, news and information. As Arkady Volozh, General Director of Yandex explains, "Opening a branch in Ukraine will dramatically speed …

An interesting story has been travelling around the media in Europe this week as Baidu - the leading Chinese search engine - has defended itself from major music labels concerning music downloading. Baidu has strongly protested its innocence claiming …

An analyst at Morgan Stanley predicted China’s internet industry will surpass Japan with 10 years, an article at Yahoo! News reported today.

“The $15.1 billion equity value of China’s commercialized Internet, which includes 13 portals, online game services and auction houses, …

After some deliberation, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has finally approved the .cat domain, which although not always openly discussed, is causing a bit of a stir in other regions of Spain. The .cat domain—not to be …

You can customize hamburgers, search results, and the ring of your cellphone whenever your mom gives you a call. But can you customize your AdSense reports? You bet. Even better, you can view the customized reports at any time with just one click. Here’s how:On your Advanced Reports page, create a report with a variable date range (e.g. “yesterday”, “today”, etc.). Choose any combination of channels or just aggregate data to view all channels, th

According to the Search Engine Journal blog, Ask Jeeves has released a new blog search engine for Japan. The launch coincides with the Google announcement earlier this week about the beta of its own blog search.

Apparently there are 3.35 million …

Though the NY Post headline reads “Bested Microsoft offers Google truce” - that they are willing to settle with Google and former employee Kai-Fu Lee, a China development expert, suggests they are ready to move on.

Obviously Lee will be restricted …

Speaking at the eyefortravel Sales and Marketing in Travel Europe conference in Berlin, Jan Oetjen, Travelocity’s managing director Germany, said that the search engine revenues would be cut following the likely consolidation in the travel industry. …

According to the Seattle Times, Microsoft announced it will outsource over 1,000 jobs to China in the near future.

Coming at a time when Google and Microsoft are feuding over Mr. Lee who has extensive experience and connections in the Chinese …

Jeteye beta, is an innovative way to search and share search results. Recently launched on August 23rd, jeteye offers the user a completely new way of exploring the web and organizing search results clustered in so-called “jetpacks”.

The jetpack concept …

MIVA Inc. (NASDAQ: MIVA) has announced the first European partnership with Dennis Publishing UK, for the distribution of a customised toolbar for three major brands: Express, Maxim and PC Pro.

The toolbar will be identified by individual branding for each magazine, …

Back in August, we recommended using Google Sitemaps to help Google crawl your content pages. Since then, Sitemaps has been updated to support mobile website URLs. We know that more users are searching the web from their cell phones and more publishers are creating web pages designed specifically for mobile devices. So, you can now use Google Mobile Sitemaps to tell Google about your new and changed mobile web pages, and increase your coverage in

You’ve signed up for AdSense. You’ve activated your account. You’ve chosen your ad format and colors. Now you’re ready to paste your AdSense ad code into your site. Or are you? If you’re new to HTML, you might find it a bit challenging to add our code into the HTML source of your pages. (”HTML source–what’s that?”)Have no fear - our new Troubleshooting Demo is here! I’ve worked with other members of our support team to create an HTML Troubleshoo

The IABC (Internet Advertising Bureau of Canada) reports that online advertising in Canada in 2005 is on track to show a growth of 43% over 2004. Of the 364 million Canadian dollars measured in 2004, a 30% share was …

The number of e-commerce dealers in China now exceeds 20 million - according to the China Electronic Commerce Association. 2005 is the 10th year since e-commerce began in China.

20 million traders means that there are more trading in China …

Google is now offering Gmail in 9 additional languages including the Thai language character set. Users have always been able to read and write emails in Thai but now the whole Gmail interface can be viewed in the language.

Anyone …

According to a research report published in August 2001 by Gartner’s Dataquest, the country which can expect the highest growth rates in the Asia-Pacific region was India. From 2001 to 2005, Dataquest expected India to enjoy average subscriber growth …

Recently I came across a statistic that I’ve been long waiting to see, it was published thanks to a recently released Advertising Age report named “HISPANIC FACT PACK: Annual Guide to Hispanic Advertising & Marketing 2005 Edition”. See following table:

This …

I manage to get back to my homeland (England) occasionally on business and now and then get across the pond to the USA for conferences etc. Each time I go there, I normally catch on the Hotel television an advertisement …

According to a recent study by ARD/ZDF Online, there are now 57.9% of Germans aged from 14 that are online (37.5 Million people). More pensioners and those unemployed have come online as broadband costs sink. The prognosis is for the …

Wi-Fi access to the internet faces new challenges as anti-terrorism legislation imposes monitoring of public access points. Anonymous access to the internet is now prohibited by a new law requiring personal identification of users logging on to …

The Inside Google Sitemaps blog has just announced that Google Sitemaps’ user interface and documentation are now available in ten additional languages. The newly added languages are:

Brazilian Portuguese
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Korean
Russian
Simplified Chinese
Spanish
Traditional Chinese

Sitemap submisssion is not …

I’ve heard some ugly rumors circulating about image ads, and I want to separate the myths from the facts so publishers don’t miss out on an important revenue opportunity. Myth: Image ads take too long to load and I hate those ‘Shoot the Duck’-type adsFact: We have strict guidelines for both animated and static image ads restricting them to a maximum size of 50 kb, so they’ll load quickly on your site – and no Shoot the Duck ads allo

An article in today’s Bangkok Post referenced a decision by M-Web to expand its online advertising/marketing business to include mobile phones. M-Web is a major player in the internet economy within Thailand and runs the Thai language portal sanook.com. …

The European Parliament has been debating how to protect children on the internet and has come up with the idea of a specific domain for children - .kid - reports Reuters.

The domain would be monitored by an independent authority and …

Nordiske forskere har fået et legat på DKK 2,5 mio. fra Nordisk Ministerråd til at udvikle og forske i en søgemaskine (Tvärsök), som kan søge på tværs af de nordiske sprog, herunder dansk, svensk, norsk, finsk og islandsk.

De eksisterende …

Move over Google, Yahoo! and MSN Orion is coming. Australian PhD student, Ori Allon has patented a new way of searching the web and this new method could dramatically change how search results are provided. Got to love …

A fine example of the global village, the small Baltic state of Estonia is allowing its citizens the ability to vote in the upcoming local elections via the internet.

The elections take place on October 16. I will be following it …

A multilingual web search project has received a research grant of DKK 2.5 mio ~ 335,000 EUR to research the options of multilingual web search covering Scandinavian languages including Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic.

Receiving the grant will enable …

The story that information given to the Chinese government by Yahoo! is getting major coverage right now. The story initially broke by Reporters Without Borders has been picked up by most new services.

The BBC News gives a good recap of …

MSN has opened the doors of its new AdCenter in Singapore - its long awaited move into the pay per click market - reports Abondance. The minimum cost per click has been set at 10 cents in Singapore Dollars …

A new RSS search engine in Dutch has been launched by Ilse.nl the second most important search engine in the Netherlands. Called Feedo.nl, the new search engine has indexed feeds from 2000 Dutch news sites and the most …

Agrarmarkt Austria, Berglandmilch, Lebensministerium, Raiffeisen Ware Austria and Telekom Austria have combined their forces to create a vertical search engine for Austrian agriculture.

Called Agrarinfo, the search facility currently has 7,000 links to agricultural sites and 3000 user addresses.

Behind the new …

Tiscali UK has announced the introduction of a Fair User Policy which aims at preventing heavy downloads - Peer to Peer – during peek usage hours. In an effort to privilege VoIP, video streaming, and faster web surfing, …

Back in June we discussed the launch of Yandex Direct, from Russia's largest Search Engine. While Yandex still dominates the market with a 52% share, Google has begun to catch up with recent figures showing 16% (a climb of …

Proximedia of Belgium is predicting that 25% of Belgian companies are likely to switch to using a .be domain name.

European businesses abuzz over ‘.eu’ domain names - INQ7.net

A US City firm has stated that speculation that Google may attempt to buy Yell in the UK is “plausible”. So a rumour then - whose validity is only really supported by the fact that Google and Yell are …

Recently, Vector21 conducted a very exciting study of online trends in the tourism arena, just for Portugal. Surveying people in Lisbon, Porto and Algarve, Vector21 found that 78.6% confirmed that they are internet users, while 50% stated that …

Seems Google is responding to recent surveys that have Baidu taking a lead in the Chinese market. They have released China Local Search.
News coverage and other blogs have been quick to notice and comment.
Since Biadu went public recently and …

Really, who said Spain is an e-commerce weakling? Sure, there are a number of studies pointing the index finger at Spain and claiming sluggish spending growth, online payment insecurity, and companies’ general reluctantly to spend on pricey ecommerce solutions. And …

If you flip back to an earlier story, when Multilingual Search covered the changes to the complicated .es domain name registration in Spain, you’ll know that according to Red.es the process was simplified to promote the regional registrations just …