{"id":788,"date":"2008-09-01T00:56:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T15:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=788"},"modified":"2008-09-01T00:56:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T15:56:04","slug":"google-alphabet-in-japanese-and-other-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/google-alphabet-in-japanese-and-other-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Alphabet in Japanese and other languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google finally added their long-testing “Google Suggest” feature to their top page. O’Reilly Radar made an interesting list<\/a> 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.
\nWell, 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,<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Letter<\/th>\nEnglish<\/th>\nJapanese<\/th>\nexplanation<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
a<\/th>\namazon<\/td>\namazon<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
b<\/th>\nbebo<\/td>\nbiglobe<\/td>\nISP and portal by NEC<\/a> group<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
c<\/th>\ncraigslist<\/td>\ncanon<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
d<\/th>\ndictionary<\/td>\ndell<\/td>\ndell is the first. followed by docomo(#1 cell phone) and (Nintendo) ds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
e<\/th>\nebay<\/td>\netc<\/td>\nETC is an Electronic Toll Collection System in Japan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
f<\/th>\nfacebook<\/td>\nfirefox<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
g<\/th>\ngmail<\/td>\ngoo<\/td>\nNTT group portal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
h<\/th>\nhotmail<\/td>\nhotmail<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
i<\/th>\nikea<\/td>\niphone<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
j<\/th>\njohn lewis<\/td>\njal<\/td>\nJapan Air Line<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
k<\/th>\nkelly blue book<\/td>\nkakaku<\/td>\nKakaku.com<\/a> is a popular price comparison site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
l<\/th>\nlimewire<\/td>\nlhaplus<\/td>\nWinzip-like file extractor tool in Japanese<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
m<\/th>\nmyspace<\/td>\nmixi<\/td>\nthe No.1 Social Network Service<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
n<\/th>\nnbc olympics<\/td>\nnhk<\/td>\nNippon Housou Kyokai<\/a>, national public television<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
o<\/th>\nolympics<\/td>\nocn<\/td>\nNTT group ISP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
p<\/th>\nphotobucket<\/td>\npsp<\/td>\nPlay Station Portable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
q<\/th>\nquotes<\/td>\nquicktime<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
r<\/th>\nrunescape<\/td>\nrakuten<\/td>\nthe biggest e-commerce mall<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
s<\/th>\nsears<\/td>\nsoftbank<\/td>\nIT conglomerate who owns No.3 cell phone (including iPhone), Yahoo! Japan<\/a> and Alibaba<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
t<\/th>\ntarget<\/td>\ntoto<\/td>\nUS musician, Japan ese high-tech toilet manufacturer<\/a> or our buddy Serkan Toto<\/a>? Probably national soccer lottery “toto”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
u<\/th>\nutube<\/td>\nufj<\/td>\nMitsubisi UFJ Bank<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
v<\/th>\nverizon wireless<\/td>\nveoh<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
w<\/th>\nwikipedia<\/td>\nwiki<\/td>\nMany Japanese people calls Wikipedia as Wiki<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
x<\/th>\nxbox<\/td>\nxbox360<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
y<\/th>\nyoutube<\/td>\nyahoo<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
z<\/th>\nzip codes<\/td>\nzozo<\/td>\napparel e-commerce mall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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.
\nI also made a chart with Spanish, French, Chinese, etc.<\/a> to see what Google thinks popular in each language here.
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\nIf 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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… Continue reading Google Alphabet in Japanese and other languages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[495,1422,2050,2930],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-brand","tag-google-suggest","tag-language","tag-popularity","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}