In fact, the figure is just over 80% of those searching under Portugal who then seek information about travel, accommodation, culture and food - these are the county's potential tourists.
Online search data was analysed by Bloom Consulting which noted that 47% of enquiries were from within the country, the balance of 53% obviously were from abroad.
Troubled banking group BES today saw its shares drop a further 9% on the Lisbon stock exchange.
The bank is undergoing painful changes in management that have seen the controlling family, descendants of the founders, lose their overall control due to an urgent share issue diluting their cherished holdings.
The resident Chinese community in Portugal received the highest increase in fellow countrymen in 2013, according to data contained in the latest Immigration, Frontiers and Asylum report by the immigration and borders service (SEF.)
The Chinese community increased 6.8% compared to 2012, followed by immigrants from Guinea-Bissau up just 0.5%.
Italian police have donned priests’ garments in a ruse designed to catch two suspected blackmailers.
The schemers were demanding money from a senior Catholic priest who had been indiscrete enough to engage in erotic gay telephone conversations which the men had taped.
Economic activity in the eurozone has slowed down in June, according to research from Markit.
The slowdown meant activity was at its weakest rate in six months.
A cave in southern France decorated with paintings has been recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The 1,000 paintings are so rich in depth, perspective and movement that they have been dubbed a ‘prehistoric Sistine Chapel’.
Environmental watchdog Quercus wants the existing bridge to Faro Island to be repaired and refurbished, and the establishement of a smaller parking area than the one planned by Faro council.
To this end, and to the frustration of the local council which wants to spend over €3 million on a shiny new bridge and car parking area to encourage tourists, Quercus has filed a complaint with the European Commission against the Portuguese State because of the council’s decision.
Firefighters battled for two hours to quell the flames in a sugar plantation near Vilamoura.
The fire consumed an area of cane and marshland located at the boundary between the Loulé municipality at Vilamoura, and the Albufeira council's border.
