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.
March 5, 2009
Ad more companies developing global websites, they are facing new and often times unexpected challenges in launching and managing the websites. There are some key points in launching a global website that makes you better ready for it. Also, read my interview about the topic and come to my session at SES NY on March 24.