Japan wants its own search engine
Seems the Japanese government wants the people of Japan to have its own search engine. One developed by the Japanese for the Japanese to counter the presence of Google Japan, Yahoo! Japan and others.
Japan's Matsushita, Tokyo University and others to develop image search technology
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Matsushita, Tokyo University and others to jointly develop the image search technology The electric, the communication and the media industry’s major companies, such as Matsushita Electric, NTT, and NHK, will jointly develop the search technology to retrieve the information from Internet, in cooperation with the Ministry of Economy, […]
Japan's goo lab to test "speech assisted search"
NTT Resonant (www.nttr.co.jp) has started the “Speech Assisted Search” text at goo lab (http://labs.goo.ne.jp). With this technology, a mobile user can speak the search word instead of typing it. In order to use this service, a user would access the page on goo lab web site from mobile phone, choose the search service, call the […]
A new organization to protect intellectual property rights in Japan
The key players in Internet auction industry and intellectual property right organizations have instituted a new organization in Japan. This organization will share the problems and the information related to the intellectual property right violation on the Internet, and take action to prevent such violation goods from being sold/purchased online. Members: Cannon Computer software copyright […]
Yahoo! Japan to increase page views by 10%
Since Yahoo Japan has switched to the page search instead of the directory search in October 3, the overall search page view has increased by 200mil (10%) from September. The directory search was decreased only by 20%. It seems that Japanese Yahoo search users are checking the directory search results after going through the page […]
Google Japan's sitemaps beta
November 17, 2005 Google launched the Japanese version of Sitemaps beta. This is the same service started in US in June, and gives query stats, crawl stats, page analysis, and index stats. Japanese version of Google mobile sitemaps is now open, too.
Japanese doesn't shop holiday gifts online?
According to the survey done by Internet.com (japan.internet.com) and Infoplant (www.info-plant.com), only 20% answered that they used websites to research the restaurants and/or hotels where they spent the last holiday seasons. Also, out of 300* survey participants, only 26 answered that they purchased holiday gifts online last year. * 300 internet users in Japan in […]
Shopping engine Smarter.com launches in China and Japan
Shopping engine, Smarter.com has launched in China and Japan according to Gary Price over at Search Engine Watch. Obviously the growth of consumers in China has made this a profitable target. The web design of the Chinese site is closer to the US design, while the Japanese one has more graphics as most Japanese sites […]
Google Japan gains market share and narrows the gap with Yahoo
According to the search engine user survey done by Japan.Internet.com and Infoplant, Yahoo! Japan is still the most popular search engine in Japan followed by Google Japan. However, the gap between the two has become less than 10% compared to 26% in 2004. The popular Google Japan’s function and services are: – Image search – […]
Livedoor/SDI tie-up for online ad services for China
October 26: One of Japan’s major internet service providers Livedoor (corp.livedoor.com) will provide the online marketing services to Chinese market together with Strategic Desision Initiative Ltd. (www.strategicdi.com) through Livedoor’s Chinese portal site “MyRice” (www.myrice.com). The services include; internet advertising, e-mail promotion, and internet/mobile research services as well as website design and the hosting services.