From looking at the Japanese mobile market as a whole, Google Japan is the leader with its search partnerships with Docomo and KDDI with Softbank in third place. Japan is a highly developed "wired" country, has a similar e-commerce infrastructure...
Google Takes Gold and Silver in Japan: NTT DoCoMo and KDDI Searches on Yahoo! sites grew 13% year-over-year in January - in Japan. Google sites, including YouTube grew just 5%. There is a caveat. This comScore data doesn't count mobile searches...
Here's the math: Google (NTT DocCoMo + KDDI) = 80 percent of the Japanese mobile phone market. Soon 80 percent of the mobile phones in Japan will feature the Google search engine. That doesn't necessarily mean Google will have an 80 percent share...
Gary Price spots that KDDI, a Japanese mobile operator, has signed a deal with KDDI, Below, a recap of stories posted yesterday to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we've spotted but not blogged separately:
KDDI, Japan Mobile Phones, Signs Deal With Google To Provide Mobile Search Today's search podcast covers Yahoo execs talking about current and future moves at Yahoo analyst day, Google getting a new budget option, Vint Cerf on book search more!
Gary Price spots that KDDI, a Japanese mobile operator, has signed a deal with Google to provide mobile search for au phones. The service is to begin as early as July 2006, and will enable not only mobile searches, but also be enhanced to provide...
