State of Search – Japan
My presentation about the state of search Japan from International Search Summit in London. I talked about the market size, e-commerce size, web search, mobile search, social media, etc. The additional information provided.
Continue »What do you want Google to bring you for Christmas?
I had a short interview yesterday, and the question was “What do you want Google to bring for Christmas?” My answer was “easier algorithms”. OK, maybe “easy” wasn’t the right word, I should’ve said something like “standardized” or even “fare” and this is my thought behind this answer.
Continue »How to Create Rich Snippet for Google Japan
Rich Snippets was just rolled-out in Japan, which is the second market to use this feature. August and December are 2 of the biggest gift giving months in Japan, and this new feature came out just in time to help those holiday shoppers.
Continue »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.
Continue »Battle of Search Engines in Japan 2008
Analyzing the search results page data from popular search engines in Japan such as Yahoo Japan, Google Japan, MSN Live search and Baidu Japan.
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