August 24, 2009
How big is the Japanese search market exactly? Japan is the 3rd biggest country by the number of Internet users. See other statistics from Japanese government and research organizations.
August 19, 2009
With Softbank president's "Go" sign for bing-Yahoo alliance, Yahoo could further expand the market share in Japan with bing's pillar search services, which are all popular among Japanese search users.
August 7, 2009
Baidu.com announced the release of analytics tool, "Baidu Statistics". This is the first analytics tool to be offered in Chinese search engine industry.
July 29, 2009
Today, Microsoft and Yahoo made it official announcing a 10 year search deal.
June 2, 2009
SEMPO kicks off Asia Tour with visit to Singapore on June 9. Tour provides opportunity for SEMPO to learn about the local market and promote the search industry in Asia. I'm visiting Singapore, Beijing and Mumbai as a chair of SEMPO Asia Committee.
March 5, 2009
Google Japan's pay-per-post fiasco has become a huge news in the search industry all over the world. But did they really mean to do a link spam? I think not, and this is my thought on the whole case after watching everyone is spinning it as a link building scheme.