As always, I’m glad to have to the French Google Maps blog, Renalid contribute most of the following French Google Maps mashups and descriptions..French Presidential Elections MapBayrou presidential candidate website: Uses Google MapsTrivop.com - An English language videoguide for hotels (mostly all in France)Cafés Wi-fi: This site references the best “cafes-bar-brasserie” which offers free wifi free in Paris. TraceGps.com: Directory of GPS tra
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.
Heise.de brings us the news (in German) that the German Government will be moving away from co-operation with the French over the search engine research project ‘Quaero’ even creating their own new project with a new name ‘Theseus’.
The announcement came …
New Mashups:Thanks to Renalid for these new mashups from France:Bretagne region webcams panoramics and picturesVendée Department of TourismPages France - Click under “les plus visitées”MMmm!!! is a directory of Parisian restaurantsReal Estate: SeLoger.comLocation-parking.comImmobilier-des-particuliers.comCulture and fun in ParisRecently mentioned:Worldwide Marathon DirectoryParis Transit Planner France Google Maps Mashups:Part 1 | Part 2
The Google monster came under concerted attack from Francois Bourdoncle, CEO and founder of France-based search engine Exalead in the opening keynote of Search Engine Strategies Paris. The press in particular should be worried about becoming sub-contractors of Google, he …
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 …
Renaud Euvrard and other French Google Maps Mania contributors are back to help us learn what’s new, mapped and mashed-up in France:Peuplade creates mass social exchange in Paris (French language) - Renaud explains Peuplade.fr: “..Peuplade (translation :Tribe). The purpose is to improve communication between neighbors, to create a true social exchange between them in Paris.” The new version of this site (born in 2003 and limited to a district of
eMarketer reports on Internet access via mobile devices.
The study was conducted in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, and the US. while 29% of European Internet users regularly access the Internet from their mobile phones, only 19% of US …
Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion reports on the Edelman and Technorati study of the most influential blogs in German, French and Italian.
Further information will be available during a presentation later this week in Milano where the results will be …
Relevant traffic is a big player in Sweden with a focus on selling clicks from the search engine listings.
Kinnevik , a big investement company has bought 36% of the stocks for 28 million Swedish kronors and is hoping to …
Reuters reports that AOL France is selling its internet access business to Neuf Cegetel for $365 million as it overhauls it’s online business in Europe.
The important point about the report is that AOL has simultaneously boosted its war chest by …
Emarketer reports Ecommerce trends for the next few years, associating robust growth in online sales to the increase of DSL lines installed both at home and at work.
The report identifies the UK as the most “mature” of all …
:Drive in a Ferrari through the streets of Paris - A while back (perhaps even a year ago) I made mention of a map that was created using Google Maps of the 1978 short film, “Rendezvous” set in Paris. The map has been taken a step further on bhendrix.com where the film is played in a small Google Video window, while below the route is drawn for you as the film progresses. Switch to satellite mode and you can follow along all the twists and turns t
internet-pro offers information on the dynamics of DSL pricing over the last 12 months taken from an emarketer.com report The results of the analysis show …
Accoona has launched its search engine into the European zone - in fact western Europe. The search engine - which is on a .eu at www.accoona.eu searches by language - rather than country. Currently, the EU version runs …
TAGora is a Research Project funded by the European Union. The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportunities offered by the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social interaction and social networks.
The project will develop along several lines:
A systematic and …
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 …
Accoona - the new European Search Engine
Our French correspondent Renaud Euvrard is back with this week’s France Google Maps Mashup Roundup. This is Renaud’s second post. Check out his last post here, which has a list of all known Google Maps mashups from France:You are looking for……A bookshop with the lastest book from O’ Reilly which you wish to buy? With O’ Reilly, where to find… it is easy to enter your postal code and ISBN code of the book that you to seek, and the maps in
I would like to welcome Renaud Euvrard to the team of contributors here on Google Maps Mania. Renaud will be helping us to keep up to date on all the Google Maps mashups and news from the country of France. He files his first post with us today:Estate agency Kéops - “Agence immobilière Kéops” - Kéops is a network of estate agencies being in the south of France (Herault). The integration of Google Maps is very well made and makes it possible t
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 …
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 …
The Pew Global Attitudes Project has released a report illustrating the rapid growth of internet use globally. Much of this growth can be put down to more women and over 50’s coming online across Western Europe.
The report also contains …
Pandia reports on a new censorship comparison tool developed by researchers at Indiana University. The tool compares the preeminance of words featured in the top ten results of Yahoo or Google by displaying words graphically giving weight to those …
Barry Diller launched the new look Butler-less Ask at the Search Engine Strategies show in New York revealing that Ask has a China-based R & D team working on a local search engine for China. He also said that …
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 …
Forget ‘pay per call’, PagesJaunes.fr - the French Yellow Pages organisation’s online division - has just launched a free version for its advertisers. From now on, anyone who advertises online will be able to include a free telephone …
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 …
The Belgian domain registry is promoting use of the .be domain by offering free registration until the 31st January. The domains are available on a first come first served basis and the registration systems are open now. Whilst …
Last week, on October 25th, Seekport, often referred to as the European search engine, made a European re-appearance in nearly all of its six locations (Austria, France, German, Italy, Spain and UK). Local press conferences and interviews were held to …
French domain names are notoriously difficult to obtain. The ‘liberalization’ of the procedure in 2004 had little effect on easing the process. Sure, non-French citizens could now register an .fr domain name but only if they provided a French Identity …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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
French President, Jacques Chirac has reinforced the development of a eurocentric search engine, baptised ‘Quaero’ from the Latin, by committing France’s new innovation agency to developing a Franco-German search engine to compete with the ‘Americans’. This makes the development …
Trade Doubler reports a drop in online advertising sales for loans in July
According to Brand Republic the big online brands could well move into the traditional media by buying a firm called Trader Classified Media.
Trader Classified Media (not ‘trade’ as reported elsewhere) owns 575 print titles and 56 web sites in 20 …
XiTimonitor has published a study showing that Firefox is truly taking off with European audiences.
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