Both Yahoo Japan and Google Japan displayed Olympic inspired logo on their sites.
This is Yahoo’s logo cheering for Japanese team. Japan’s Matsuda won bronze medal in the 200-meter butterfly.
This is Google Japan’s logo on top page today. Google.com has a logo with monkey on rings. It looks that they are using animals from Chinese Astrology.
Since SES Chicago 2007, I had a pleasure of doing “Search Around The World” session with some of the best search engine marketers such as Mr. TR Harrington of Darwinmarketing. And, I was delighted when I had a chance to interview him about fast growing Chinese market.
1. What is the focus of your presentation at SES San Jose?
There are so many interesting things happening internationally that the challenge for the speakers on this panel is choosing a select few!
I think there are a few key topics to this presentation: namely what is happening online in China, some of the key companies and trends, and how is search different in China, discussing some of the unique differences about Chinese search vs. other markets.
I had a fun doing the interview about SEO in Japan with Philip of Blogoscoped. (Thanks to Byron and SES for setting this up.) I hope it gives some insights of Internet market in Japan and some of the challenges dealing with Japanese languages and the culture to people who are doing or plan to do business with Japan.
On July 7th, Google Japan posted a logo using Marc Chagall’s art.
He was born on July 7, 1887.
I like reading goo’s Ranking results (ranking.goo.ne.jp). You get a good laugh when reading the results for topics like “Canned goods that you always let expire” and “Things you want to peal off” (like scabs). Most of the topics have nothing to do with Internet or Search, but they just posted Top 20 results for “Things you hate about corporate web sites”, which I’d like to share.
These are all good points, and not just for Japanese people, but I think all of us have experienced the same frustrations at some point in time. I see issues like #2 (heavy image files), #4 (PDF file), “#10 (contact info) and #20 (English menus) all the time when I review localized corporate websites.
1. The site content has not been updated for months
People are looking for fresh content. There’s no excuses for corporate websites for not updating the site regularly. What year is the copyright on your site?