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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 …
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Google Adds The First Overwater Street View From Tokyo Waterfront
Official Google Japan blog wrote that they had added a new interesting street view route in Tokyo bay, “the first street view on the water” by taking photos from their tricycle fixed on …
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Google Opens Evacuation Info Portal For Japanese Cellphone
Google built a dedicated page which is tailored for Japanese cellphone web browsers (i.e. i-mode and others) to help people suffering Tohoku earthquake/tsunami/nuclear crisis [J]. Compact web page for …
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Google Japanese Input Drops Beta Tag, Does Even Fortune-Telling
If your language has much more letters, say 3,000 characters, than multiple times (shift/crtl/alt) of number of keys on keyboard, you need an input method environment(IME) to tell computers what …
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Google Zeitgeist 2010 Japanese Ranking
Following to Yahoo! Japan 2010 ranking, Google’s Zeitgeist 2010 has been disclosed on all of their languages including Japanese. Although Yahoo! Japan Search switched its backend to …
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Yahoo! Japan's Search Engine All Switched To Google's Confirmed By Y!J President Inoue
According to Jiji, Yahoo! Japan president Masahiro Inoue confirmed that their backend search engine switch had finished on December 1st. Japan Fair Trade Commission yesterday declared that the …
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ex-Google Japan President Starts A New Company Alex
Koichiro Tsujino, who served as Google Japan’s president, which was an exceptional position in Google, resigned this April, has just begun his new venture, Alex [J]. On the Alex’s board …
