Battle of Search Engines in Japan 2008

Posted at January 16, 2009, in Japanese Search Engines

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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Japanese Use Multiple Search Engines

Posted at October 2, 2008, in Japanese 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.

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Japanese Search Engines Cheer For Olympians

Posted at August 13, 2008, in Japanese Search Engines

Google Japan and Yahoo Japan’s Beijing Olympic inspired logo from their sites.

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Search Engine Optimization in Japan – Google Blogoscoped interview

Posted at July 29, 2008, in Japanese Online Market, Japanese Search Engines, Japanese SEO

My interview with Google Blogoscoped about Search Engine Optimization in Japan. I had fun doing it, and glad to hear some great feedbacks. I hope it would encourage people to consider Japan as their main target market.

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Yahoo Japan releases Yahoo Profile

Posted at February 14, 2008, in Japanese Online Market, Japanese Search Engines

2 weeks after Google released its Google Social Graph API, Yahoo Japan opened “Yahoo Profile” service. Yahoo Profile integrates Yahoo’s Social Networking Service, Yahoo Days’ profile pages and Open ID user profiles.

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