Google Japan
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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 …
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Have Sushi At Fish Market, Then Check Pins Out
In commemoration of announcing “Favorite Places[J]” as a promotion campaign of Google Map, on Monday Google Japan[J] placed “real” red pins at several locations, which imitate …
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Google Search Gibberishes to Some Users in Japan
Google Japan announced their apology on their search results for some users were showed garbled texts from 9th evening to 11:30 p.m. for around 6-7 hours on their official blog [J]. The bug affected …
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Google Japan Removes Hot Keywords From Its Top
“Google Kyuujyoushou Waado (Hot Keywords)”, which was introduced on the Japanese top page of Google on February 5th to show users recent most searched keywords, has been removed from the top page and …
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Google Japan, Top Menu Localization
Google is trying to fit into Japanese web in their chasing battle with Yahoo! Japan. On February 20th, Google made a small fix at the top-left menu on their Japanese top page. There was an clear issue …
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Google Japan Buys Dirty Pay-Per-Post Links
Google Japan seems desperate in chasing the Mighty Yahoo! (see here for example). They are now using a tainted and controversial social media optimization method called pay-per-post, provided by …
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Google inflates Search Market Share versus Yahoo! Japan
Google Japan’s year-end announcement on Dec 22nd, 2008 shocked the industry, when they loudly proclaimed that their search market share had reached 41%, which is only 3 points behind the 44% of …
