Africa's Web

Today we have launched our New Zealand Info Directory under new-zealand-info.co.nz domain name. Users of Google.co.nz will benefit most as our directory covers New Zealand domain names only. Directory will grow as we discover more .nz web sites

February is launch of our Canada Info Directory. Currently there is over 100,000 domains in the database but it will grow slowly as we discover more .ca sites

I was nicely surprised to see increase in traffic this year to my online portfolio. After examining web stats the top search engine was Bing and not Google. I have been fan of Google for a long time but their search engine is far from perfect. Listing of pages is chaotic and does not seems to follow logical rules. The rise in traffic from Bing means users are defecting Google search. Playing field is slowly becoming even. One dominant search engine creates online monopoly and kills business opportunities. "Evil Empire" started to having positive influence on Internet search. The ideal situation would be to have mainstream search engines equal market share. Exiting times ahead !

Finally broadband prices have fallen by half. Previously you paid R60 per one Gig of data. Now you can pay R29 per Gig. This offer is from AfriHost and I have been using their account for the past 2 months with good result. Next year we can expect further price drop as more undersea cables come online in Africa.

Browsing the Internet while on the move is very useful and beats boredom while standing in the queues. Cellphones come with bundled browsers but lots of them does not work very well creating frustrating experience and some sites can't be accessed at all. If your cellphone does support Java then you can download free web browser Opera Mini. It works very well as page that you're accessing is formatted for that browser so font and images are resized for optimum viewing pleasure