Japanese portals usage report
NetRatings’ report on Japanese main portal sites usage shows interesting facts. It reports that people visit Yahoo Japan site spend most time on Yahoo Auction site (26%), which is much higher than Yahoo’s top page (15%). It also reports that people visit Google Japan site spend most time in Search (74%), and many people come […]
Yahoo to aquire 100% of Overture Japan stock share
On August 31, Yahoo announced that they acquired 100% of Overture Japan’s stock. With this acquisition, Yahoo aims to become the largest share holder in the search engine marketing industry. (200 stocks, US$13,426,000.00) The announcement included no particular changes in services, but I’m sure there will be some expansion in the advertising services and the […]
Fastest growth in China, Russia and South Korea domains
According to Verisign, InsideDomaining reports, the Top 3 countries with the highest growth rate for their country code top-level-domain extensions are the following: 1. China: .cn (402% increase) 2. Russia: ru 3. South Korea: .kr China (.cn) has now become the fifth most popular country code extension globally, as Yahoo! finance points out, this was […]