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New Google Japan Homepage

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
15 years ago2,979 views

This seems to be a test:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2216/2943099103_84fe30c9fb.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gen/2943099103/

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Interesting!

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

What's the text in the middle of the page?

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Gen Kanai says that that they're news stories, much like the news section from Yahoo Mail.

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

So it's becoming something of a portal then.

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

"While Yahoo Japan is still the most popular site in Japan, they’ve only gained about 8.4 mil accesses/month since December 2005, compared to Google’s 14.6 mil gain during the same period of time." (http://japan.globalthoughtz.com/google-japan-became-no2-sites-for-the-first-time/ , Jan. 2008)

http://www.yahoo.co.jp/index.html

Gen Kanai [PersonRank 1]

15 years ago #

Thank you for linking to my photo.

I think this kind of testing is showing that Google clearly realizes that what they have for the default in Japan today is not successful in taking users from Yahoo!

I question whether the design of a search services' homepage has much to do with new user acquisition in Japan, but that's a separate topic.

Gen Kanai [PersonRank 1]

15 years ago #

[put at-character here]Alex Chitu: your data from Jan. 08 is not very accurate. Comscore has a much bleaker picture (although Comscore's data is not that great it is better than the Motoko Hunt quote.)

http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/yahoo-vs-google-japan.png

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