Google Japan is only the No. 2 in Japan’s lucrative search market, trailing the country’s biggest website, Yahoo Japan. But it now wants to win in Japan through boosting its mobile search: Google may be the leader in the worldwide search engine market, but in Nippon, it has some...
What Can Explain Yahoo Japan’s Dominance?
Why is Yahoo Japan dominant? It’s not only beating Google Japan in search, but as a portal, it’s the country’s biggest online destination: Yahoo’s stake in Yahoo Japan is often cited as one of its most valuable assets, and indeed Yahoo is considering selling it as a quick fix to...
Review: 8 reasons why Yahoo rules Japan
My posting about the Top 50 web sites in Japan featured a winner: Yahoo Japan. The company not only dominates Internet search in Japan (approx. 65% market share) but the Internet as a whole, offering a wide range of services. Corporate business figures are not too shabby either. From April to...
Google aims at conquering Japan through the backdoor
Google is the world’s No. 1 search engine but here in Japan, Yahoo is the undisputed king – not only for Internet search but also as a very comprehensive portal. Today it came to light Google Japan will cooperate with Japan’s leading telecommunications company and cell phone...
Yahoo makes a lot of money in Japan
Yesterday, Yahoo Japan (Japanese only) released a press release basically stating that earnings in this country skyrocketed from April to September 2007. According to Yahoo, sales went up 17,2 percent to 117,74 billion yen (compared to the same time frame in 2006). That is 1 billion USD (720...
Yahoo Japan brings the web to HD-TVs
Japan is a leading producer of TVs. Everyone knows that. Also, everyone heard a lot of marketing bla-bla in the last years about “merging technologies”, “bridging digital gaps in the living room” and, of course, browsing the web on TVs. Obviously, this will be the case one...