Google Alphabet in Japanese and other languages
Google finally added their long-testing “Google Suggest” feature to their top page. O’Reilly Radar made an interesting list of which letter shows what keyword when you type a single letter, ‘A’ to ‘Z’. By this, you can observe what brands are strong and popular in English web, at least Google thinks so.
Well, then how about Google Japanese? For example, there are no reason they recommend “eBay” for “e”, “Craigslist” for “c” as they hardly exist in Japan. Here we go,
| Letter | English | Japanese | explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| a | amazon | amazon | |
| b | bebo | biglobe | ISP and portal by NEC group |
| c | craigslist | canon | |
| d | dictionary | dell | dell is the first. followed by docomo(#1 cell phone) and (Nintendo) ds |
| e | ebay | etc | ETC is an Electronic Toll Collection System in Japan |
| f | firefox | ||
| g | gmail | goo | NTT group portal |
| h | hotmail | hotmail | |
| i | ikea | iphone | |
| j | john lewis | jal | Japan Air Line |
| k | kelly blue book | kakaku | Kakaku.com is a popular price comparison site |
| l | limewire | lhaplus | Winzip-like file extractor tool in Japanese |
| m | myspace | mixi | the No.1 Social Network Service |
| n | nbc olympics | nhk | Nippon Housou Kyokai, national public television |
| o | olympics | ocn | NTT group ISP |
| p | photobucket | psp | Play Station Portable |
| q | quotes | quicktime | |
| r | runescape | rakuten | the biggest e-commerce mall |
| s | sears | softbank | IT conglomerate who owns No.3 cell phone (including iPhone), Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba |
| t | target | toto | US musician, Japan ese high-tech toilet manufacturer or our buddy Serkan Toto? Probably national soccer lottery “toto” |
| u | utube | ufj | Mitsubisi UFJ Bank |
| v | verizon wireless | veoh | |
| w | wikipedia | wiki | Many Japanese people calls Wikipedia as Wiki |
| x | xbox | xbox360 | |
| y | youtube | yahoo | |
| z | zip codes | zozo | apparel e-commerce mall |
Caution: as roman alphabet is not the prime letter in Japanese, search volume of them may not be big as other letters (Chinese-origin thousands Kanji-s and Hiragana/Katakana) in Japanese.
I also made a chart with Spanish, French, Chinese, etc. to see what Google thinks popular in each language here.
If anyone write the explanation of what each keyword means in your languages, please let me know (by comment or trackback). I will link to it.
Author Information Akky Akimoto is one of the first pro-bloggers [J] in Japan. As an individual he writes for Asiajin and his own Japanese weblog. He also produces web services including IvRead.com and Narabe.com. Twitter @akky No Responses to “Google Alphabet in Japanese and other languages”
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x xbox y youtube z zip codes アメリカの郵便番号です。 日本語のGoogleで検索すると、日本語での提案が出てくるので、結果はまったく違います。Asiajinの方では、日本で出てくるブランドを英語で説明してみました
Posted on Sep 4, 2008 by satomi Akimoto at Asiajin made a list ofGoogle Alphabet in Japanese and other languagesbased on what Google suggests. From the list, you can see things that are popular in English but not in Japanese, and vice versa (ex. MySpace v. mixi, Bebo v. biglobe, gmail v. goo). For non-Japanese readers, he made a short introduction for each Japanese term. Below,
terms by “popularity” instead of the number of returned results. Craigslist is the most popular search for “c”, according to Google. What about “a”, “b”, “d” and so on? Interestingly, an US alphabet list has been made here, and a Japanese onehere. Since Google Suggest has not yet being implemented in Google Malaysia, I tried to check any existence of a Malaysian list through http://www.google.com.my/webhp?complete=1&hl=en. To my disappointment, the list is the same one with the US version.