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Microsoft Looking to Buy Norwegian Search Engine
According to the New York Times, Microsoft is looking to purchase Norwegian Search Engine Firm, Fast Search and Transfer. The deal is said to be worth $1.2 Billion dollars. The Norwegian company, Fast Search and Transfer, based in Oslo, is a specialist in search technology used inside companies…
Let’s get started
Welcome to the Austrian part of “Global Thoughtz”. For introducing my blog and the Austrian market let’s start with some soft and general insights. The Austrian Market is in comparison to other countries a slowly developing country in terms of social/web marketing…
Past Search Marketing Confernces In Scandinavia
Looking to attend search engine and online marketing conferences can be a huge ordeal for many who live outside of main venues such as London, New York or San Jose. However thanks to the organizers of Search Marketing Expo, users in Sweden were able to attend SMX Sweden in October of 2007. Search…
Mobile Search and Internet Access Data from Japan
As you may heard, there are more Internet access from mobile phone than from PC in Japan. According to the latest survey about the mobile search and Internet access done by Japan.internet.com and CrossMarketing, more than 30% of the people took the survey said that they search the words in ads using…
Austria Search Engines
Popular search engines in Austria: ABACHO The powerful search engine ALL OF AUSTRIA Guide to Austria ALTAVISTA Austrian and global web search AUSTRIA-SEEK Search engine for Austria and the German speaking internet AUSTRIA WWW Austria search AUSTRONAUT Austrian and world…
Garbage in is garbage out
Most analytics problems come from basic errors in the information architecture and limitations in the CMS, not from lack of analytical capacity or software. Know your site, know your URL’s and your parameters. For years and years I’ve heard marketing people and technical people complain that…
Here are some stereotypes you will be facing as a web analyst…
Feel free to give your hints as to how best adapt to the challenges you meet while facing these stereotypes. Technical people They seem to think that anything they program will automatically be measured. They often don’t think about the information architecture or the catalog structure or the…
Web Analytics basics: 90% is good enough
90% is good enough when it comes to the click-stream analysis. Don’t look for perfection. Use surveys, user testing and other resources to see the whole picture. For more on “the whole picture” look for good insights on: Avinash Kaushik’s blog called Occam’s Razor. I also recommend his…
Search Engines in Sweden
Here is a look at some of the top search engines and directories that are popular in Sweden. Altavista Sverige Evreka Gotland Webguide Lycos Sverige MSN Sverige Google – Sökmotor som listar ut hur relevanta länkarna är beroende på hur populära de är Pagina Spray SUNET Svesok Tjohoo Walhello…
Local Search to Heat Up in 2008
Local search continues to be a hot topic that is being discussed by many in the search industry. The major search engines as Google, Yahoo and ASK all continue to improve their local search offering. Look for big things to happen with local search from Google Local, Yahoo Local and other local…
Analytics Summit India 2008
I take the pride of informing you all about the First Ever Analytics Summit in Eastern India this February. Marketelligent presents “ Analytics Summit India 2008 ” along with Salford Systems , Us and NIT Durgapur at the NIT Durgapur campus. It is scheduled for February 15th, 2008 alongside the…
Russian Search Engines
List of Russian Search Engines: Source: http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/Russia.html RUSSIA CRAWLER Delivering easy and relevant results for Russia! [spider] (Los Angeles, California, United States) ABI LOGIC World web directory with the purpose of providing a relevant and spam-free…
Risk Management and Credit Bureau in India
In India, Risk Management is done by Financial Institutions only to small extent and most of the banks are hardly looking at it. They are growing and their focus and priority is set there. But with the Banks facing problems with their forceful collections strategy and higher default rates are slowly…
What is Local Search?
As I begin writing about local search here at Global Thoughtz, I thought I would begin at the beginning. I spent a few minutes looking over the notes and articles I have collected over the year and am amazing how things have changed so much. Some sites/services have appeared while others have faded…
