Second Life, not so big in Japan… yet
Japan.Internet.com and goo Research announced the results of their survey about the Second Life in Japan. The survey was conducted against 1087 Internet users in Japan. While Second Life has been receiving many media attentions, it seems that not many people are fully aware of what the Second Life is. See some of the data […]
Japanese spend more time at Nicovideo.jp than at YouTube
NetRatings announced the results of its “August Internet Usage” report. According to the report, NicoNicoDouga (nicovideo.jp) gained the total usage minutes by 52%, and had higher “average use time” and “average number of visits” per person than that of YouTube in August. Since it’s opening in March with an unique feature that visitors can post […]
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 […]
Google webmaster tools starts to think international
At least two major new features are arriving in Google’s webmaster tools console according to information from the SES San Jose conference and the official Google webmaster tools blog. The latter has announced support for the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) and a series of further enhancements are expected. IDNA enables webmasters to use […]
Overture Japan's "Technology solutions partner program"
Overture Japan announced their new program “Overture’s Technology Solutions Partner Program” for the partners. As a part of this program, they’ll offer the sponsored search API: “Enterprise Web Services (EWS)”. The program is set to start at the end of August. With API offered through this program, the functions offered by a sponsored search can […]
Japan's Internet population to reach 80 million
According to “Internet White Paper 2007” by Inpress R&D, Japan’s Internet population is 82.2 Million, which is more than 60% of Japan’s population. The Internet population increased about 10% from 2006. It shows that the age group 50s and up had a huge increase in Internet population this year. It also shows that people are […]
SEMPO Japan announced 3rd annual Japanese Search Market Research
On June 6th, SEMPO Japan has announced the results of their 3rd annual Japanese SEM research at Net Marketing Forum in Tokyo. K. Fukasawa (SEMPO Japan) and Motoko Hunt (SEMPO Asia/Japan) – me! 🙂 gave the presenation. The main findings of the research are: – About 50% said they do both SEO and PPC, while […]
Japan's video search engine "Fooooo" goes global
The video search engine “Fooooo” is now available in 11 languages including Russian, French, Chinese, and English. Fooooo started its beta version in Japanese in March 2007 offering the search services from more than 28 million movies/videos from 50+ sites in the world. Currently, 40% of the users are accessing the site from overseas.
Japanese government's Bot Measure Project
Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications just announced the status of “Bot Measure Project”, which started in last December. In 2006, they collected 974,999 bot programs and found 1,711 programs, which were not detected by commercial softwares. They are providing softwares to remove 1,259 viruses (from the above […]