March 5, 2009

Google Japan’s intension in doing pay-per-post campaign

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.
October 2, 2008

Japanese Use Multiple Search Engines

70% of Japanese use 2 or more search engines, the recent survey by Japan.Internet.com shows. The results show that Yahoo Japan and Google Japan are the most popular search engines followed by MSN Japan. The top reason for using multiple search engine is not happy with the search results given by one engine.
March 27, 2008

Google Japan changed the top page layout

Google Japan has changed the top page layout by adding tabs and links to some of their popular tools and pages. Google has been religiously keeping its simple top page with big Google logo and the search box, and Google is still keeping the same top page in all of the other countries and markets. So why Google Japan decided to make the changes?