Europe’s largest telecoms operators - with one American firm - are planning to launch a mobile phone search engine to rival Google and Yahoo. The companies concerned include Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia and US firm Cingular. Combined, they have a user base of 600 million people - with some 20% in the UK expected to have broadband speed mobile phone access by the end of 2007.
A recent Hotwire Ipsos MORI survey, identifies blogs as one mos the most influential information sources, second only to newspapers.
The study reveals that 34% declare they have not purchased a product after reading comments on the internet from customers or …
Search friends,
This will be my first blog at Multilingual Search and I am really happy to have join this brilliant blog team.
Funny enough my first blog will give you news about Denmark, although I am originally Swedish.. but …
As per August 1st one can no longer keep their personal information secret in the DK-Hostmaster [The danish body responsible for handeling the .dk domain] database.
Up until August anyone could choose to hide their personal information from the who-is quesries …
Abondance tells us that the Agence pour l’innovation industrielle (Industrial Innovation Agency) gave an update this week on progress with regard to 6 of its projects including the European search engine project ‘Quaero’. The project has a budget of …
Threadwatch and ThomasB report that Google has extended the GoogleMaps application to cover many more countries in Europe. Then have even followed route E30 all the way to Moscow!
As Thomas writes, the implications for local search are significant. With multilingual …
Multilingual Search doesn’t normally report on news from search marketing agencies - but the news that Danish search marketing firm Notabene is to float on the Danish stock exchange is somewhat close to home: Rasmus Sørensen of Multilingual Search is …
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, …
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) - …
The BBC reports on the opening of the doors of EurID to allcomers trying to register one of the valuable .EU domains - now on a first come first served basis. Already 300,000 have used the sunrise period to …
It seems the Danish search engine scene have gone beserck releasing new search services. Recently we reported the new search engine from Danish tv station TV2.
Now search engine Jubii has recently launched a search service called Jubii iQ where …
The Danish tv station TV2 has quietly launched a new search engine called TV2 Fredo. The search engine presumably offers contactinfo, website links(!), maps and a link to a gift certificate partner.
TV2 describes the search engine as follows (my rough …
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 …
Inspired by Kristjan’s post about Iceland, here is a short run down of the Search Engine Landscape in Denmark
The search market in Denmark has historically, until the worldwide Google dominance, been driven by local directory Jubii (sold to Swedish Spray, …
The long awaited .eu domain name opened today for applications. The ’sunrise’ period will run from 7th of December to 7th April 2006 to allow those with prior claim to secure their domains before they are made available on a …
At Search Engine Strategies Stockholm, Websidestory Regional Account Manager, Nordic Fulton Yancy published figures showing the tracking company’s view on search engine shares in Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden drawing the conclusion that the major local engines are losing …
Kservik over at Threadwatch reports on the launch of no less than 3 new search engines in Norway.
All the 3 new engines are all powered by the technology from Norwegian FAST Search & Transfer - the left over tech from …
Mirago chose to launch its new advertising network in Sweden at the Search Engine Strategies conference in Stockholm where the first advertisers were formally signed up to advertise. Mirago is a UK-based pay per click search engine and has …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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
Trade Doubler reports a drop in online advertising sales for loans in July
XiTimonitor has published a study showing that Firefox is truly taking off with European audiences.
Norway and Portugal have been the fastest growers in the last with 19% and 15% respectively. Five eastern European countries score for the …
Congratulations on the deal between MIVA and Eniro.
Thank you both for taking time out to talk to Multilingual Search and answer a few questions about the deal with MIVA and Eniro.
RASMUS: A lot has happened with Espotting in Scandinavia since …
Norwegian news site Digi.no reports that Google have opened an office in Oslo, Norway. So far the office only employs one, Mr. Jan Grønbech. Grønbech is the former boss of ad giant DoubleCLick (Adlink). However Google employs another 3 people, …
After closing their local sites 1.5 years ago, Yahoo has once again opened up to local users in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The local sites have a very similar look and feel to the US site, but one major difference …
The very first .eu domain has gone live on the web today - but don’t get your cheque books out yet - this is the registration organisation itself - EURid at www.eurid.eu - which is responsible for managing the new …
