{"id":8330,"date":"2010-05-03T23:03:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T14:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=8330"},"modified":"2010-05-03T23:03:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T14:03:07","slug":"google-losing-default-mobile-search-engine-position-on-docomo-i-mode-portal-a-gate-to-half-of-japanese-mobile-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/google-losing-default-mobile-search-engine-position-on-docomo-i-mode-portal-a-gate-to-half-of-japanese-mobile-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Losing Default Mobile Search Engine Position On Docomo i-mode Portal, A Gate To Half Of Japanese Mobile Web"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJapan’s largest cellphone carrier NTT Docomo, which boasts 50% market share on cellphone users, also keeps over 50% share of cellphone web connection services i-mode, announced that they switch their default mobile internet search service from Google mobile search to Goo’s one since April 30th<\/a> [J].
\nUntil last week, your searching on i-mode portal, iMenu (you can not access without Docomo cellphone mobile browser), gave you three sections of search results.<\/p>\n

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  1. iMenu Site Kensaku (i-mode official sites search), provided by NTT Resonant(Goo)<\/li>\n
  2. Sonota Keitai Site Kensaku (all mobile sites search on the Internet) by Google<\/li>\n
  3. PC internet search by Google<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The first category is the golden goose both for Docomo and third party mobile contents providers for official i-mode sites (so called “Koushiki Site”).
    \nThe latter two have been provided by Google since April 1st 2008 (    Docomo’s release<\/a> [J])
    \nThis time, Docomo is trying to change the second category’s search provider from Google to Goo. Goo mobile search has been one of many non-default mobile search on i-mode. User can set to merge the first category and the second category together, both official and unofficial mobile sites result in mixed by settings, too.<\/p>\n

    Too much search traffic than expected?<\/h3>\n

    However, on the very same night around 11:40 p.m., NTT Docomo and NTT Resonant stops this change, and reverted its mobile internet search back to the original (i.e. Google mobile search). Docomo submitted apology release<\/a> [J], and it has not been updated yet on May 3rd.
    \nSo those NTT group alliance’s attempt to lighten Google’s presence on i-mode started with failure, which is a shame. But the release says that they are working on it to go ahead.<\/p>\n

    See Also:<\/h3>\n

    Some screenshots with new Goo mobile search on i-mode default, taken on April 30th at mbdb.jp<\/a> [J]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Japan’s largest cellphone carrier NTT Docomo, which boasts 50% market share on cellphone users, also keeps over 50% share of cellphone web connection services i-mode, announced that they switch their default mobile internet search service from Google mobile search to Goo’s one since April 30th [J]. Until last week, your searching on i-mode portal, iMenu… Continue reading Google Losing Default Mobile Search Engine Position On Docomo i-mode Portal, A Gate To Half Of Japanese Mobile Web<\/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":[5,17],"tags":[1394,1401,1607,2393,2664,2669],"class_list":["post-8330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","tag-goo","tag-google","tag-i-mode","tag-mobile-search","tag-ntt-docomo","tag-ntt-resonant","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330","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=8330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}