A Japanese court has fined Google $3,100 for the uncensored results shown in its autocomplete feature that linked an innocent man to crime, AFP reported. A Japanese man.who remains anonymous, complained to the Tokyo District Court after he...
Gleaning data and knowledge from our previous experiment into the Japanese market, we went heads down and dove deep into competitive keyword research. Livedoor is ranked within the Alexa Top 100 (#78) and is the 8th largest website by traffic...
Germany, and Japan could very well have the following regional variations: http://www.example.com/en/page (Generic English version of content - language specific; English) http://www.example.com/en-gb/page (English language, displays prices in...
Other partners before Sina include Apple and Japanese telco DoCoMo. In Asia Pacific, YouTube has presence in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan. Because of the huge market potential, Chinese search giant Baidu...
It’s a cultural issue; companies have succeeded by setting up a company with local Japanese representation, so it’s less about search and more about the business culture there and how to operate,” he explains.
When it comes to paid search ad spend, Japanese marketers spend 93.8 percent of their paid search market on desktop, although it accounts for only 89.7 percent of clicks. In Japan, smartphones have been much more widely adopted than in Brazil.
Google is reviewing the court order, which would force Google's operations based in U.S.to obey the Japanese court of law. He told Japan Times their case “is believed to be the first to order the removal of specific terms from the search feature...
Japanese in this age group are more likely to search for a restaurant or a bar on their smartphones compared to others in the younger demographic or those aged 50 and above. Thai people over 50 years old are more likely in Asia to use their...
In May 2010, he moved to Silicon Valley to attend Y Combinator, while continuing to build out the company’s Japanese presence remotely. They now offer support in 35 countries, with localized platforms and IP-based tracking, as well as four versions...
For example, “ilbonjeon gol” in Korean means “goal at the match with Japan”; however, “ilbon jeongol” means “Japanese stew. Naver has never been known as a simple search engine. As pointed out in my recent article on Naver’s paid search, it's a...
Lising noted that in the Asian market, English to Japanese translations, for example, often fail to match local search terms or even the context in which the phrase was intended; localization is a required extra step.
In July 2010, Yahoo Japan, an independent entity from Yahoo, announced it has decided to forgo the Bing transition to use Google's organic and paid search results citing Microsoft's search technology was insufficient to serve local needs such as...
What makes Yahoo Japan unique to other Yahoo properties worldwide is the fact that it is jointly owned by Yahoo and a Japanese company called Softbank; this might be the reason for its success in that market.
Twitter is rapidly gaining popularity in Japan, but local Japanese sites like Mixi and Gree still maintain dominance over the social media market, according to online statistics firm Socialbakers. Japan
Outside of China, Baidu's search service has been available in Japanese since 2007. Rakuten, Japan's largest e-commerce company, and Baidu announced a strategic partnership in January 2010 to invest $50 million over three years to build a new...
We cannot emphasize enough the importance of having native Japanese review the site. Koichiro Fukasawa: Create a website that looks just like any other Japanese websites that are often information packed with lots of photos and graphics.
A woman in Japan has sued Google for posting a picture of her underwear hanging to dry when the local pictures were taken, the UK Telegraph reported. According to the Telegraph, the woman filed suit after she first saw the photo on Google when...
The Japan Fair Trade Commission on Thursday approved the partnership between Google Inc.of the United States and Yahoo Japan Corp", Asahi reported, noting "as the partnership goes through, Google's search technology will account for about 90...
Japanese Keyword Selection for SEO - ClickZ.asia Refining the Google Maps tiles for Japan - Google LatLong Here's a roundup of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Nov.to 12, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search...
In July, Yahoo Japan, the number one Japanese portal, announced plans to use Google's search and advertising technology to replace its current system as early as this year. Rakuten, Japan's largest online shopping mall operator, has asked Japan's...
