Yahoo Japan to use Google search

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Rodney Van Meter <rdv () sfc wide ad jp>
> Date: July 27, 2010 4:46:23 PM EDT
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Yahoo Japan to use Google search

> Dave, for IP, if you wish:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/technology/28yahoo.html?src=busln
>
> Yahoo Japan will use Google technology to power its Internet search engine and search advertising platform, the 
> Japanese company announced Tuesday, diverging from a nascent alliance between the U.S. Internet portal Yahoo and 
> Microsoft.
>
> The deal puts Yahoo Japan, partly owned by the U.S. company, on a sharply different path from that of its American 
> cousin, Yahoo, which is planning to use Microsoft’s Bing search technology by the end of this year under an agreement 
> announced in 2009.
>
> <snip>
>
> Yahoo holds 34.8 percent of Yahoo Japan, while Softbank, the Japanese cellphone and Web giant, owns 38.6 percent.
>
> Google’s share of Web searches in Japan has been growing, but it still trails Yahoo Japan, the market leader. 
> According to Net Ratings, a research firm, Yahoo Japan grabs 53.2 percent of Web queries in the country, followed by 
> Google at 37.3 percent. Microsoft’s MSN and Bing searches garnered just 2.6 percent.
>
> <snip>
>
>        --Rod
>
> Rodney Van Meter
> associate professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan
> rdv () sfc wide ad jp
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