Comments on: Yahoo! Search pulling away from Google; Bing nowhere

By: Google invades Japan « Japan – Australia stuff

Google invades Japan « Japan – Australia stuff — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:32:00 +0000

[...] was happening in the world of the Japanese Internet, it’s never really caught on. In fact, it runs a close second to Yahoo! Japan (according to a 2010 survey), which really seems to have the Japanese Internet-using community wrapped around its little [...]

By: Taro 3Yen

Taro 3Yen — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:37:36 +0000

I never have been able to understand the difference between Yahoo Japan and the rest of Yahoo but…

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Yahoo (YHOO) just posted two videos of Carol Bartz explaining why its now regulator-approved plan to outsource search to Microsoft does NOT mean the company is out of search. http://bit.ly/ctAckh

By: mutuelle

mutuelle — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:20:59 +0000

Agree with Wasaweb

By: Tokyo Web Designs

Tokyo Web Designs — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:31:58 +0000

Wasaweb makes a good point.

Also it is worth noting that numbers for Yahoo may be inflated since a lot of Japanese people use the Yahoo portal for checking news, weather, email and so on.
There is some research which suggests that on a like for like comparison (i.e. actual number of searches) Google Japan’s numbers are actually pretty close to Yahoo Japan.

By: wasaweb

wasaweb — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:14:59 +0000

Thanks for the interesting stats, though I’m not sure whether a direct comparison between Yahoo! and Google figures tells the whole picture. How many of the portal sites use Google or return results based on Google? I’m pretty sure goo’s search results are based on Google. Similarly, BIGLOBE’s results are ‘enhanced’ by Google.