Japan’s Web Behemoth Yahoo! Japan and one of three major convenience chain-store Family Mart jointly starts free coffee campaign [J] today. Anyone searching “Famima Coffee” (Famima is an official abbreviation of Family-mart in Japanese) on Yahoo! Japan’s iOS or Android app would get a free coupon of Family-mart coffee, size S which usually costs 100… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan and Family-mart Gives 50K Free Coffee For Search
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Google Agreed To Remove 122 Items By Court Order
Asahi reported that Google Japan answered them that they would remove the items ordered by Tokyo District Court. Complainer’s agent confirmed that most of the items are not showing up on Google Search results. The complainer had claimed that Google showing the pages with implying that he was related with crimes is an invasion of… Continue reading Google Agreed To Remove 122 Items By Court Order
Tokyo Court Orders Google To Suspend Keyword Suggestion Around A Person
Tokyo District Court issued a decision of provisional disposition on March 19 for Google to remove specific search results on its suggested keywords feature around a name of a male who sued Google that the search results infringed his privacy, according to the layer of him, Mainichi reported [J] ([update 2012-03-27] Mainichi English posted the… Continue reading Tokyo Court Orders Google To Suspend Keyword Suggestion Around A Person
Goo Web Search Offers Useful Tweets On Search Results
NTT Resonant, a subsidiary of Japan’s largest telecommunication company NTT, who is running Goo, a search engine for PC, mobile (mainly for Docomo handsets) and smartphone, released [J] that Goo starts providing “Useful Tweets” on its search result page. The useful tweets showed on the search are selected by Goo’s original language analysis and scoring… Continue reading Goo Web Search Offers Useful Tweets On Search Results
Rakuten Switches Portal Search Backend To Google
Rakuten, Japan’s huge online mall, announced on 10th that they are to use Google search on their portal Infoseek Rakuten. Infoseek Rakuten has been using Yahoo! Japan search backend, and requested Japan Fair Trade Commission to investigate if Yahoo! Japan-Google search alliance is antitrust. Naver, Korean-originated search engine running Japanese search site, announced [J] on… Continue reading Rakuten Switches Portal Search Backend To Google
Japanese Top Search Keywords 2009 By Yahoo! Japan
Although it is November, the season of 2009 ranking comes! Yahoo! Japan discloses their annual ranking by what keywords people searched in this year. As always, all Japanese search engines and portals will follow, but Yahoo! Japan is the No.1 search in Japan, this ranking is one of the best to describe “regular” people’s search… Continue reading Japanese Top Search Keywords 2009 By Yahoo! Japan
Google Japan’s In-Train Ads Asks Cellphone Users To Search By “Google”
In Tokyo Metro train, I noticed small ads by Google Japan. The ads are for Google Mobile Search promotion. This one suggests to search Google by “Shibuya Movie” when you want to know if the film “Taken” can be watched from now in your location (Shibuya). So Google Japan wants more cellphone users to use… Continue reading Google Japan’s In-Train Ads Asks Cellphone Users To Search By “Google”
The First Practical Kyoto Address Search Yahoo/Google Do Not Offer
If you ever lived in Japan, you know that Japanese address system is uneasy for people who get used to the western system on which all streets have a name and name+number identify the single location. In Japan, addresses are rather area name. Two Giants Yahoo! Japan and Google have been working well with this… Continue reading The First Practical Kyoto Address Search Yahoo/Google Do Not Offer
NAVER, Korean based new communication search services landed on Japan, again
Yes, they come again. This time with solid determination and good amount of resources in Tokyo. NAVER, number one Web search service in Korea has started open beta service for Japanese market.It is their second entry for Japanese market since their first attempt which was ended 2005 due to focus on domestic market, or simply… Continue reading NAVER, Korean based new communication search services landed on Japan, again
Sony Makes Mashup Screensaver for Blue-Ray Recorder Promotion
As a part of their blue-ray disc recorder promotion, Sony gives away Windows/Mac screen saver on their site. After pressing “download” button, you have to scroll down the terms of use to the end to make the second download buttons enabled. Association with the recorder having an ability to find programmes by user-registered keywords and… Continue reading Sony Makes Mashup Screensaver for Blue-Ray Recorder Promotion