Internet.com and Girls.Lab announced the results of mobile site bookmarking survey with 1409 girls between 10 and 18 in Japan. Here are some of the results: Q: Do you know the bookmark function on your mobile phone? – Yes, and have used it, 62.5% – Yes, but haven’t used it,
JASK (Japan Affiliate Service Kyokai) was established on May 12th. They will exchange and provide the information and the services with affiliate service providers, including: – increase the understanding of the affiliate programs – monitor improper activities and exchange the information to maintain the affiliate service quality, and to protect
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has announced the number of Blog and SNS registrations as of March 31, 2006. The numbers are the total memberships of 53 blog companies and 21 SNS companies. * Blog membership: 8680,000 * SNS membership: 7160,000 The numbers at the end of September
MARS FLAG is a search engine made in Japan, which shows the search results with web page images. It started to run the beta version in March 2005, and officially opened on May 8th. They also started to provide the PPC ads for the results pages.
According to “The Face of the Web”, which was published by a market researcher Ipso Insight, Japan remains the world’s No.1 Internet based economy with about 9 in 10 said to have used the Internet in the past 30 days, and spent 14 hours in average per week online. Chinese
The Internet Usage in Japan (by Net Ratings) reports that more than 2 million Japanese had accessed to YouTube even though the site is in English. The number of Japanese users who access to YouTube has been rapidly increasing since December 2005, and reached to 2.12 million in March 2006. Average
According to the survey done by Opt and Cross Marketing, the “newspaper articles” was the number 1 reason (37%) why Japanese male searches, and the “conversation with family and friends” was the number 1 reason (49%) why Japanese female searches. The research also shows that average Japanese search users view
SEMPO Japan has announced the results of Japanese SEM market research at the SES Tokyo on April 20. The results show that more than 60% responded that they use SEM as a mean to improve the brand recognition, and more than 31% responded that they have a separate budget for
One of Japan’s oldest search sites, goo, has added “encyclopedia search” button on its dictionary search service, “goo dictionary“. This is the first tie-up search service with Wikipedia in Japan. goo dictioary has about 3 million users/month, and one of goo’s most popular services. Wilipedia now has more than 200,000
The shopping focused search site, Become.com, has opened its Japanese beta version “Become.co.jp” on the 10th. The site users can search the information such as products, reviews, and EC site comparisons in Japanese.