Heavier users of the internet are switching to Firefox in greater numbers in the UK, says Nielsen//NetRatings. According to their latest report, by September 2006 almost 12% of UK users had adopted Firefox.

Whilst for web marketing campaigns, 12% isn’t …

Walla.co.il, Israel’s biggest Internet Portal and search engine till 2005 sent a notice to all its advertisers, announcing a shift from PPI (pay per Inclusion at a fixed price) to Pay Per Click. The change will be implemented starting January …

Google’s third quarter results show a growth year on year of 70% - a slower rate than the virtual doubling we have seen in the past, however, from a larger base so a still considerable increase in activity. …

Hitwise is predicting that visits to UK online retail sites will see a growth of 8% this Christmas over last. This is a rate of growth fast than last year and search engines will account for 35% of visits …

The new numbers of the Dutch National Search Engine Monitor (research 1.379 Dutch people) provided by search engine marketing company Checkit and RM Interactive show that Google still the most used search engine.

Sometimes used
Google 96% (+1)
Ilse 20% …

In a conversation with Multilingual Search, Guy Phillipson, Chief Executive of the IABUK commented that paid search should exceed £1 billion by the end of 2006 in the UK.

Guy says, “Search is the perfect form of persuasion marketing and is …

The IABUK, reported in the Guardian says that paid for search advertising or pay per click, has risen by 57.7% this year over last.

The finding comes in their annual study of online market share carried out with Pricewaterhouse Coopers and …

Media research firm Zenithoptimedia reports that 8 countries will dedicate more than 10% of their budgets to online marketing by 2008. Two countries will already cross that barrier this year - the UK adn Sweden - interestingly not the …

Madar Research has released figures which show that the number of internet users in the Arab world exceeds 26.3 million with an increased growth rate in 2005 of 18% giving a 9 million increase. Penetration of access is …

UK Plus reports that recent campaigns offering broadband for free in the UK (alongside telephone calls) has resulted in the worst quarter the industry has known in recent times - just 730,000 lines were added in the most recent quarter.

As …

A very interesting post from Niall Kennedy about International Search, via OjoBuscador.
This data is very interesting, for those of you who haven’t seen it yet. Gives great insight into the breakdown of interntional search. Take a look at the …

Google Israel team (CEO and seniors) meet leading Israeli SEM companies

Israel biggest web players and the popularity of search

Iceland (pop 300.000) is the most web-savvy country - a recent study shows it has the highest concentration of broadband users. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found that broadband was also widespread in South Korea, …

Latest figures from Hitwise gives Google 74.8% of all UK internet searches in March. The top four search engines were responsible for 95.7% of all UK internet searches in the period.

Specifically Hitwise says:

MSN.co.uk and MSN.com combined …

The number of broadband subscriptions throughout the OECD continued to increase in 2005 on the rise from 136 million in June 2005 to 158 million by the end of the same year.

Broadband rate of growth during the same period …

The Jakarta Post reports that internet access in Indonesia lags behind other countries with just 6.6% of the population online - but that’s a healthy 16 million audience. Neighbouring Malaysia is reported at 33% of the population and 8 …

French registrations of .EU domains show a clear rejection of the name by the French. After 24 hours, the French have only registered one fifth the number of domains (48,000) that the British have registered (260,000) - …

Austria has fallen back in terms of home-based internet access reports Futurezone - although Austrian-based businesses still have access levels to match the top countries in the world. European statistics published on Thursday shows that Austria ranks only …

A new study sheds light on irregularities of internet users distribution in Bulgaria.

Ordered by a US governmental institution, the Kiev International Sociological Institute conducted an opinion poll of 2,021 Ukrainians by the end of 2005, the results of which were published by the REGNUM News Agency today.

According to the research, despite the …

According to the latest surveys made by the Iceland Tourist Board over 60% of incoming travellers use the Internet to decide on what to do when arriving. More that 50% of those use the internet to book online. This number …

According to the Swiss Media Research and Studies organisation (la société Recherches et études des médias publicitaires (REMP)) reported by Edicom, the number of web users in Switzerland now exceeds 4 million representing around 60% of the population. Between …

The second annual conference “Audience Control and Advertising in the Internet” has just come to a close in Moscow. More then 300 people from different regions of Russia came to the capital to discuss internet advertising perspectives, 2 times more …

Ru-Centre, the Russian Registrar, has released this Monday on the number of domains in circulation. According to their figures 140 000 new URLs appeared last year in the Russian internet, which is 46.31% more than in 2004. In the beginning …

ADEx Nielsen estimates report online marketing expenditure on the rise in Italy up 51,3% over a 12 month span from January 2005
to the same month of this year. Marketing & Publicity investments in Italy reach € 601,4 Million with an …

ROMIR, the independent research group has released their periodical results for internet usage, which show that at the end of 2005, RuNet users share made up 17% of the whole adult population of Russia. While this was a disappointing dip …

Bulgarian internet advertising market made a huge step forward by increasing its revenues with 81% last year. Recent market studies show rise in online advertising spending from 3.1 million leva (approx. 1.9 million USD) to over 5.6 million leva …

Dentsu has published “Advertising Costs in Japan, 2005″ on February 20th, 2006.

The report shows that the total internet advertisement spending in 2005 is 280.8 billion yen (approx. $230mil), which is 54.8% up from the previous year. The total for …

Online ad revenue passed magazine ad spending in China and is expected to pass broadcast ad spending this year, according to iResearch as reported by the Shanghai Daily. The majority of online ad spending is at the portals, Sina, …

The number of applications for .eu domain names seems to be somewhat tardy in the UK, according to the current figures from Eurid - where Germany - not surprisingly - is way in the lead with 81,000 applications, followed …

Germany is the largest e-commerce market in western Europe - and the third economy in the world after only the US and Japan and ahead of China, reminds eMarketer author James Belcher in Germany Online - their latest report.

Key …

As seen on Threadwatch, Forbes is running an article on the Google taking market share from Yahoo! within international markets.

Citing data culled by comScore, Bear Stearns said Google’s international market share in November rose to 71.3% from 68.9% in …

As Nick Wilsdon reported, the .eu domain has been available since December 7th. But it looks like Spanish companies have showed little interest for the all European domain.
The day registration opened to registered trademark owners, had little impact on …

AzerNews reports that there are now 7,000 web sites registered in Azerbaijan in a wide variety of languages. 3,000 are in the Azeri language, 830 in Turkish, 1,300 in English and 1,600 in Russian.

A good example of the linguistic …