Top 20 Popular Search Sites and Naver Matome

Posted at February 28, 2013, in Japanese Search Engines

Donnamedia announced the top 20 popular search related sites by page views in Japan for the month of January 2013. Yahoo Search Google Japan YouTube NicoVideo @nifty Google Live.com Biglobe Bing Livedoor OCN Infoseek Rakuten excite Naver Matome goo All About So-net OKWave DailyMotion Vector It also reports that Yahoo[…]

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Google Opens YouTube Space in Tokyo

Posted at February 21, 2013, in Japanese Search Engines

Google has opened new YouTube Space in Roppongi-Hills, Tokyo. The studio (including green screen, editing room, hair & make-up, and kitchen) is made available to professional and non-professional creators and artists for free. To use the space, you first need to apply to their partner program.

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Yahoo Japan’s New Search Box

Posted at February 21, 2013, in Japanese Search Engines

Earlier this month, Yahoo! Japan came out with new search box with simpler design. While it doesn’t look much different from the older version, the new design was put together through various trials and tests over a year from colors, sizes, and textures, hoping to provide better search experiences no[…]

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Yahoo is showing more results from Google

Posted at November 22, 2010, in Japanese Search Engines, Japanese SEO

Yahoo Japan’s search results is now identical to Google’s in many cases if you use Chrome browser. In other words, depending on which browser you use, you get different search results in Yahoo Japan right now.

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Yahoo Japan to be powered by Google and what this means to marketers

Posted at July 27, 2010, in Japanese Search Engines

Yahoo Japan and Google Japan jointly announced that Yahoo Japan’s organic search results will soon be powered by Google. However, it looks more of the hybrid version rather than the pure Google search.

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