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Workey - vertical jobsearch in combination with Google Maps (www.gstories.com)

Workey hasn’t launched their services yet but its a fascinating technology that will enable the users to see all the work applications on the web on one site. It is voted as nb 3 of the most interesting innovations to …

Sweden’s Eniro is buying bubblare.se (www.gstories.com)

Eniro has bought 48.1 % of Netclips who owns the video clip community bubblare.se.
They want to strengthen their position in the market and have a more vertical approach and of course the ability to compete with more videorelated content in the fields of search. With the recent new launch of their maps and search ability they are predicted to grow as a strong player in the Swedish search landscape.

European telecoms operators threaten US search hegemony (www.gstories.com)

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.

Gmail - emails are still not found (www.gstories.com)

People in Sweden are still reporting that they’ve had problems with Gmail and that their email from the beginning of January still hasn’t been found. Google says its fixed and hasn’t been a problem after December 2006, but it seems …

Eniro.se relaunch (www.gstories.com)

Eniro has relaunched their website and claim to have a better service now. They are still using Googles search index but is integrating it better now with their other services on maps and address-information. For instance, they provide you additional …

Blogs influence European consumers (www.gstories.com)

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 …

Google News in Sweden (www.gstories.com)

Google News has launched a Beta version in Sweden. http://news.google.se/
The newspapers are abit scared and headlines are out about the incident in Belgium when Google got sued for linking to newspapers in the region. The Newspapers in Belgium won that …

New search engine in Sweden - Sesam.se (www.gstories.com)

Sesam.se is a new search engine in Sweden that is launched by Schibstedt. Interrestingly enough they are trying to go up against Google and MSN to become the best local search engine. Their strategy is to work more with pics …

Internet World conference this week (www.gstories.com)

Internet World, the magazine about webmarketing, has a conference in Stockholm this week. Search is one of the major topics and about 250 people have registered to attend the conference. It will take place tomorrow, tuesday 26th and wednesday …

Relevant Traffic has sold 36% of stock to Kinnevik (www.gstories.com)

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 …

Search increased with 200% in Sweden (www.gstories.com)

Internet media is growing rapidy in Sweden with an increase of 40% in spending from last year. In total the mediaspending increased with 7% for all offline and online medias. The total media spending in Sweden is now 7,8 …