Breaking News: Naver to replace Overture Korea
Posted: August 31, 2010Today August 31st 2010 Naver one of the 2 largest search engines in Korea has announced that they will replace Overture search advertising platform Panama with their own NHN Business Platform (NBP). Being at anAgency in Japan working on both the Japanese & Korean market I figured that once Japan left using the Yahoo platform Korea’s search... [Read more]
Yahoo Japan Site Explorer back online
Posted: August 13, 2010Only after a week Yahoo Japan Site Explorer is back online & out of maintenance mode. This is one of the possible reasons why Yahoo Japan has an argument with Yahoo Inc. (US). Their timing sucks. No other way of saying it. A week long maintenance of an important SEO tool, then it comes out of maintenance right at the beginning of the summer holiday.... [Read more]
Yahoo Japan & Google after a week
Posted: August 7, 2010Ok it’s not a week yet but I got a chance to meet up with Yahoo reps this week twice. Since my job is paid search we got a chance to ask our team of reps that come by the office “Ok so what’s going on”. You can be assured that the systems Yahoo & Google use for advertising will be separate. Most likely on the outside things... [Read more]
What’s going on Yahoo?
Posted: August 4, 2010I guess since announcing that Yahoo Japan is going to be moving over to Google’s search technology Yahoo US doesn’t have to be careful about maintenance planning & such. Immediately after the announcement from Tuesday afternoon Japan time until about Thursday morning we couldn’t see any new stats in Yahoo Search management’s... [Read more]
Breaking News Yahoo Japan to outsource Search to Google
Posted: July 27, 2010I have to admit I thought this was a media joke. After struggling using Yahoo’s technology for year’s Yahoo Japan made the announcement to switch search over to Google. http://pr.yahoo.co.jp/release/2010/0727a.html Read More →
Google Japan moving to Roppongi Hills
Posted: July 19, 2010Google Japan will be moving locations at the end of the month. Currently Google Japan is headquartered in Shibuya in the same building as notable tech companies like Mixi & Omniture (I believe they are both still there). Google will move to a larger location in Roppongi Hills. Of course during this move we can’t really get a lot of customer... [Read more]
Google Content Network becomes Google Display Network
Posted: July 8, 2010Google has announced that the Google Adwords Content Network has now become the Google Display Network. In Asia most search marketers upon hearing this news will probably say to themselves “Oh yeah it can handle image ads” & go back to having media reps handle display within specialized networks. Even though my job function is Paid Search... [Read more]
Looks like Google Japan adds backgrounds automatically now
Posted: June 10, 2010Looks like Google now adds backgrounds to the Google Japan site. It doesn’t seem to do this automatically on Google.com but it does on Google.co.jp I guess this feature from Bing was good enough for them to borrow. I expect to come into the office & see Kitty Chan desktops next week… Read More →
Japan mobile trends interesting stats
Posted: February 9, 2010Last night I went to a presentation at Tokyo 2.0 I found a few stats about the mobile market that was interesting. 1/16th of the internet users in the world use mobile internet. 1/4th of Japanese internet users use mobile internet. 35% of the world’s mobile revenue comes from Japan Some sites say more than 60% of mobile traffic is from females Mixi... [Read more]
IDN Domains & technology compatibility
Posted: January 22, 2010IDN Domains & technology compatibility After reading the post on Outrider Australia’s Blog by Ian Lavelle about IDN Domains I decided to write a post about technology compatibility. His final quote made me realize many might think that these domains are not here yet, or that search technology is not already compatible. http://www.outrider.com.au/blog/idns-and-the-potential-impact-on-search/ “Google... [Read more]