SBI Robo’s social graph engine, SBI Business, is opened for business. When you search for someone’s name, it gives you the search results from search engines (MSN, Google and Yahoo), web and Wikipedia, official profile of the person, and social … Read More
DeNA, who owns Japan’s biggest mobile SNS and gaming site “mobaga town”, announced its plan to set up a company in California. This is the first step of their plan to expand the market globally. The detail of the plan … Read More
According to Aun Consulting’s report, SEO market had 9960 mil yen sales in 2007 (25% up from 7970 mil yen in 2006). 5710 mil yen: “In-House” SEO marketing 2600 mil yen: Out-sourced SEO marketing 1650 mil yen: Tool, etc. They … Read More
Baidu has announced that their Japanese site would officially open on 23 January 2008. On a current Japanese site, it provides “web”, “video” and “image” searches, but from the promotion page, it looks that they are going to provide “travel” … Read More
I just saw an interesting data of mobile sites access in Japan (by BeTrend). It shows that Japanese access mobile sites the most on Thursday of the week, and from 9pm to midnight of the day. It’s a well known … Read More
Export-Japan’s latest survey results show that more than 70% of Japanese top manufactures have English web site in addition to Japanese site. 1,684 top manufactures in Japan responded to the survey. Honda offers the most language sites (36 languages) followed … Read More
Overture Japan and DeNA have agreed to introduce Overture’s paid ads to one of the largest Mobile gaming and SNS services in Japan, Mobaga Town (www.mbga.jp). The sponsored search mobile’s ads appear on “moba search”, and the content match mobile’s … Read More
The research group comScore has released their first report looking at worldwide search activity, carried out over the month of August. Interesting reading to those dealing with multilingual marketing and a sign of the growing importance of this sector. The … Read More
According to Net Ratings’ “Ad Relevance” report, the banner advertising on web had 6.2% decrease in August from July. The decrease was not just in the amount of money spent on the advertising, but also the number of advertisers (-4.1%), … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
