September 30, 2009
ICANN announced its plan to begin offering TLDs in different letters and characters other than Alphabet in 2010. The plan includes Japanese characters, which makes domains such as ".Japan" and ".Tokyo".
August 28, 2009
Yahoo Japan announced today that Overture Japan will operate under Yahoo Japan brand starting October 1, 2009. Overture is currently a subsidiary of Yahoo Japan, providing the PPC services for PC and mobile for Japanese search market.
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.