Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries & Launches Video Search
Sourced from SearchDay
Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database.
Kiwis Embrace Online Shopping
Sourced from The NZ Herald
If New Zealanders were initially slow to shop online in the early days of the internet, they certainly caught up last year.
Credit card giant Visa said the number of online transactions made by its card holders jumped 95 per cent in 2004.
Online shoppers racked up $400 million in sales on their Visa cards, with anecdotal evidence showing the trend is mirrored by other credit-card vendors. And much of the spending is local, with cross-border transactions accounting for 16 per cent of all Visa’s e-commerce transactions, up slightly from 15.2 per cent in 2003.
Search Around The World
The following article has been published by icrossing, the premier US search engine marketing company, and features input from First Rate’s Jon Ostler. The article is part two in a series looking at regional search engines around the world.
THIS WEEK’S PANEL IS FLUENT with both ‘so suo en gin xuan quan’ and search engine marketing. Last week, we heard what excites and frustrates search engine marketers in Europe. Now we turn to experts from the Asia-Pacific.