Oct. 12: Nifty’s (www.nifty.com) pod casting site “Podcasting Juice” has launched the English version of Mainichi weekly podcast. (mainichi-podcasting.cocolog-nifty.com) The service is provided for free. Podcasting Juice, which opened in July, now has 620,000 users.
Oct. 11, Yahoo! Japan kicked off it’s beta version of area search service. (area-search.yahoo.co.jp) It provides two search windows, the firlst one for the location/landmarks, and the other one for the type of businesses that you are looking for, i.e., … Read More
Video Research Interactive Inc. (www.videoi.co.jp) has put out the results of Internet Usage report for the week of Sept. 19-25. > 1. Search/Portal Sites – 19.3mil 2. ISPs – 14.7mil 3. Community Sites – 12.9mil 4. IT Information Sites – … Read More
Yahoo Japan (www.yahoo.co.jp) has officially kicked off its Yahoo Search Japan (search.yahoo.co.jp) on October 3rd. With new Yahoo Search, the results from the robot search by “Yahoo! Search Technology” (previously known as “page results”) will be displayed first instead of … Read More
According to the Search Engine Journal blog, Ask Jeeves has released a new blog search engine for Japan. The launch coincides with the Google announcement earlier this week about the beta of its own blog search. Apparently there are 3.35 … Read More
MSN has opened the doors of its new AdCenter in Singapore – its long awaited move into the pay per click market – reports Abondance. The minimum cost per click has been set at 10 cents in Singapore Dollars or … Read More
Digital Media Asia relays a report that cross border internet traffic actually slowed in 2005. The fastest areas of growth were Asia and Latin America. As the world’s web activity continues apace – the only conclusion is that more web … Read More
Asia Media reports that internet authorities in Korea, China and Japan are to work together to improve internet security. The three countries combined represent 30% of all internet users worldwide. AsiaMedia :: KOREA: Korea, China, Japan agree to tackle Internet … Read More
Business Day reports that online travel bookings for airline travel are rising sharply through 2005. Abacus International of Singapore says that “these figures are encouraging but are by no means the peak.” Internet penetration levels are continuing to rise in … Read More
The Google blog has announced that the desktop search tool is now available in a wider range of languages comprising of French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Japanese and Korean. Google Blog: Speaking of search
Mr. Olu, the Will Smith of search engines, has created a new search engine for the world – Big Clique – in fact covering 17 languages from day one an amazingly ambitious undertaking! Big Clique claims to offer ‘Just search…’ … Read More
