Search Engines > Search Engines: Outside USA
May. 15, 2008 at 10:09am by Barry Schwartz
How Search Engines Redirect Users To Country-Specific Sites
Yahoo just started redirecting people in the UK who are trying to reach Yahoo.com instead to its Yahoo UK web site, something that Google has done for a long time. With the change, this seemed a good time to revisit how all the major search engines may intercept people trying...
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Jan. 23, 2008 at 8:39am by Barry Schwartz
Baidu Relaunches In Japan
Baidu aims to take on Google and Yahoo in Japan from Reuters reports Baidu has relaunched in Japan at http://www.baidu.jp/. The press release called the launch a "formal launch of its Japanese language search engine." As part of this launch, Baidu revamped the Japanese home page and added blog search....
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Jan. 18, 2008 at 9:08am by Barry Schwartz
Singapore Offers Cash Incentives To Build New Search Engine
Singapore launches contest for next-generation search engine from PhysOrg.com reports Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology, and Research is managing a contest to build out "a next-generation multi-media online search engine." What I find humorous about the contest is that they expect $100,000 and eight months to be enough time and...
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Oct. 23, 2007 at 8:22am by Greg Sterling
Alibaba.com Set For High Flying Chinese IPO
In what is widely expected to be the biggest technology IPO since Google and the biggest Internet IPO by a Chinese firm, Alibaba.com is ready to sell just over 850 million shares on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Those shares could fetch as much as $1.49 billion. Yahoo owns 39...
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Sep. 5, 2007 at 8:46am by Barry Schwartz
Japan Backing Device-Specific Search Tech To Compete With Google
Japan to fight Google search dominance from the Financial Times covers Japan's continuing efforts to subsidize new generation search technologies tied to gadgets and hardware, in part to be competitive against US-based search companies like Google. From the report: The Japanese project is comprised of 10 partnerships, each tasked with...
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Jul. 20, 2007 at 9:26am by Greg Sterling
Exalead Teams With Directory Assistance Provider To Offer Voice-Powered Mobile Search In France
Gary Price at ResourceShelf alerted us to the fact that enhanced directory assistance provider 118 218 in France is now offering a much broader service using content and results from search engine Exalead. In principle, this is comparable to enhanced directory assistance/mobile voice search services being offered in the US...
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Jul. 20, 2007 at 8:21am by Barry Schwartz
German-Backed Search Project, Theseus, Given $165 Million Grant
EU OKs German Online Search-Engine Grant from Forbes reports Theseus, a German search research project, has received a $165 million grant from the European Union. Theseus aims to develop an advanced multimedia search engine. The EU will allow German subsidy of the project through 2011. We covered news in the...
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Apr. 25, 2007 at 10:19am by Phil Bradley
Properazzi - A European Property Search Engine
Properazzi is a multi search engine that scans property websites and provides access to over 1,800,000 properties for sale or rent in 45 European countries. Searchers can limit searches to particular towns or countries, by price, keyword and sale or rental. A Google powered map allows another method of locating...
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Mar. 30, 2007 at 1:11pm by Chris Sherman
eTools.ch: A "Swiss Army" Meta Search Engine
I'm generally not a big fan of meta search technologies—I prefer to go directly to the search service I feel will likely give me the best response for any given query, rather than sifting through the aggregated results from several engines. But recently, developer Stephan Schmid invited me to kick...
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Mar. 28, 2007 at 12:14pm by Chris Sherman
E-Consultancy Offers Paid Search Briefing
Want the inside scoop on the state of paid search, in particular in the United Kingdom? Research firm E-consultancy recently hosted a roundtable discussion with representatives from Argos, BAA, DoubleClick, eConversions, I-Spy, John Lewis, Net-A-Porter, Signet and Steak Media, and has captured the key elements of the discussion in a...
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Mar. 26, 2007 at 10:40am by Greg Sterling
Yell.com Launches PPC On UK Directory Site
UK yellow pages publisher and local search purveyor, Yell.com announced that it launched PPC ads on its site as well as targeted banner inventory. Yell owns U.S. yellow pages publisher Yellow Book USA. One of the more innovative print yellow pages publishers, Yell also offers mobile, enhanced mapping, vertical guides...
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Mar. 21, 2007 at 12:58am by Chris Sherman
Q&A With François Bourdoncle, CEO Of Exalead
Exalead is one of those great search engines that most people haven't heard of. And that's a shame, because it offers some really powerful and unique features that most information professionals love. Exalead is also the name of an enterprise search company, co-founded by today's Q&A participant, François Bourdoncle....
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Dec. 21, 2006 at 8:49am by Barry Schwartz
Germany Leaves Quaero To France, To Start Theseus Search Project
Threadwatch points to a PC Advisor report that the euro search engine project Quaero between France and Germany is now being split up. France will continue developing Quaero to help counter American-based search giants like Google and Yahoo. Germany is to start their own search technology project called Theseus. The...
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Dec. 18, 2006 at 8:46am by Barry Schwartz
Google In Russia & Europe: The International Challenge
Two articles out today highlight Google's not all powerful in every market. In Russia and some other countries, Google is fighting to gain share. New to Russia, Google Struggles to Find Its Footing from the New York Times shows that Google is number eight in Russia, where Yandex leads the...
