Sooner, rather than later, you may be able to drop a certain orange-yellow man onto a map of Germany and then look at the scenery as if you were standing on some of the country’s highways and roads. It appears that Google and Germany have finally come to an agreement over Google Street View.
The Online Video Picture in Germany
comScore today provided some interesting insight into online video use in Germany. Among their findings was that the country had 28 million online video viewers watching over 3 billion videos in December.
Google sites completely dominated the market share at 51%. 1.7 billion videos were viewed on YouTube alone over the month. Here’s a look at where other web properties ranked:
Facebook Growing Fast In Germany, Italy
Central Europe loves Facebook. Or parts of it do, anyway. Although the social network didn’t really start releasing versions in different languages until March of this year, new reports put Facebook’s growth in two countries in the triple digits.
Google Chrome Gets Slapped Around in Germany
It doesn’t get any more “official” than this here. Yesterday, Saturday at around 20:07, Germany’s oldest and perhaps biggest prime time news Tagesschau announced the following under the headline “Warning against internet browser"*:
New Data Retention Laws in Germany
Last week, Germany’s ruling parties – a coalition of SPD & CDU, with efforts in the digital area recently spearheaded by minister of interior Wolfgang Schäuble (pictured) – passed a bill for new data retention laws*.
YouTube Goes To Germany
Thanks to its gorgeous scenery and impressive car industry, Germany is likely to have a lot of sights worth seeing. And thanks to a new version of YouTube, Germans will have a special place to share them.
eBay Facing Serious Dropoff In Germany
The online marketplace is in danger of losing out on the lucrative German market, and eBay has entered full panic mode in an effort to staunch the bleeding.
Flickr Relaxes Filters In Germany
In recent weeks and months, I’ve noticed that the Internet seems to have its own c-word: censorship. I’ve also noticed that, like most companies, Yahoo wants nothing to do with this word. So it wasn’t a huge surprise when Yahoo’s photo-sharing service, Flickr, relaxed its filters in Germany.
Flickr Installs Filters In Germany
Earlier this week, we learned that Flickr had started supporting seven new languages. Unfortunately, news has now come that Flickr is “filtering” – not censoring, mind you – content in several of those tongues.
Flickr Says No To German Photos
Google Book Search Goes to Germany
The Bavarian State Library has decided to partake in Googles project to scan books from the world’s great collections. As one of the largest libraries in the German-speaking world, the library has around nine million volumes and will make around one million books available to Google search.