News: Altavista.ch is coming
The search engine Altavista is now present on the web with a Swiss edition.
The search engine Altavista is now present on the web with a Swiss edition.News Altavista.ch comes
The Swiss index currently has about 3.5 million sites. The search interface includes some newly launched offerings such as personalization, saving frequently used search results or an e-mailing of results. Data from the personalization features will not be used for targeting, explained marketing manager Alexander Holl.
Dplanet becomes a Diax portalDiax has launched a portal integrating a wide range of communication services. Dplanet.ch, as the Diax portal was previously called, has been merged with the corporate site.
OnlineReports.ch continues to grow
With 100,000 visits and 3,000 page views daily, the Basel-based news portal Onlinereports.ch has grown significantly in the past year. "I'm not going to get rich with this," says the founder of Onlinereports, Peter Knechtli. Nevertheless, he is convinced that there is a sustainable business model behind Onlinereports. Revenues from banner advertising doubled last year, allowing the service to cover its costs, according to Knechtli.
Bol is catching up67 percent of the Swiss can't name a company that sells books, music or videos online. Even in the aided survey, 24.1 percent still say they know none of the companies named, such as Bol.ch, ExlibrisOnline or Amazon. This was the result of a survey commissioned by Bertelsmann Online (BOL) and conducted by the German market research company Emnid in Switzerland. According to Emnid, the best known in the unaided survey was BOL, which was named by 13.5 percent of respondents. BOL thus displaced Amazon from first place for the first time this fall. Amazon came in at just 11.7 percent unaided awareness. Books.ch and Buch.ch follow in the other places.
The Swiss index currently has about 3.5 million sites. The search interface includes some newly launched offerings such as personalization, saving frequently used search results or an e-mailing of results. Data from the personalization features will not be used for targeting, explained marketing manager Alexander Holl.
Dplanet becomes a Diax portalDiax has launched a portal integrating a wide range of communication services. Dplanet.ch, as the Diax portal was previously called, has been merged with the corporate site.
OnlineReports.ch continues to grow
With 100,000 visits and 3,000 page views daily, the Basel-based news portal Onlinereports.ch has grown significantly in the past year. "I'm not going to get rich with this," says the founder of Onlinereports, Peter Knechtli. Nevertheless, he is convinced that there is a sustainable business model behind Onlinereports. Revenues from banner advertising doubled last year, allowing the service to cover its costs, according to Knechtli.
Bol is catching up67 percent of the Swiss can't name a company that sells books, music or videos online. Even in the aided survey, 24.1 percent still say they know none of the companies named, such as Bol.ch, ExlibrisOnline or Amazon. This was the result of a survey commissioned by Bertelsmann Online (BOL) and conducted by the German market research company Emnid in Switzerland. According to Emnid, the best known in the unaided survey was BOL, which was named by 13.5 percent of respondents. BOL thus displaced Amazon from first place for the first time this fall. Amazon came in at just 11.7 percent unaided awareness. Books.ch and Buch.ch follow in the other places.
