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Russian success at Eurovision can convert for Yandex (www.gstories.com)

We don’t often think of the Eurovision Song Contest having an effect on the world of international search but anyone who has watched the event will admit that the voting is notoriously political. It seemed no coincidence that the UK …

Ukraine has 3 million internet users with Google leading (www.gstories.com)

Bigmir.net, the Ukrainian internet statistics site in partnership with Sputnik Media has released their metrics report for March 2006.

During March, the Ukrainian internet audience grew 10% (274′000 new users). Bigmir.net estimates that there are nearly 3 million (2,913,193) internet users …

45.3% of Ukraine prefers speaking Russian (www.gstories.com)

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 …

Russian search engine Yandex, expands into Ukraine (www.gstories.com)

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 …

Firefox browser use expands rapidly in Europe (www.gstories.com)

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 …

Ukraine: Slowly churning out progress, but not without an effort (www.gstories.com)

Eclipsed by other Eastern European countries who have already joined the EU, and with less than 10% of the population online in one way or another, you don’t hear about internet progress in Ukraine too often. But here is a …

The very first .eu domain name goes live (www.gstories.com)

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 …

Switzerland and Slovakia are Europe’s biggest gainers in Economist’s e-readiness rankings (www.gstories.com)

Whilst Denmark retains the top spot as the leading e-ready nation even beating the US, Slovakia has moved up 5 places in the rankings from a lowly 39th last year to 34th in 2005 in the latest e-readiness rankings from …