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Great first installment of what promises to be a most informative series about PPC by the guru himself, David Szetela. David covers persuasive techniques and more.... read more »
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Top 20 problems and issues that Japanese are complaining about the corporate websites. It shows typical web site design and structure problems, and how the site owners and webmasters don't care about the usability of the website. We can all learn fr read more »
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Twellow.com is a new Twitter directory that gives everyone a single place to explore hundreds of thousands of Twitter members in dozens of communities easily and efficiently. The site was launched in Alpha this week and Scott Clark took some time t read more »
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Softbank won the iPhone contract in Japan, and the mobile search market is getting hotter. Mobile Internet and mobile search have a long history in Japan. These are some of the points, which you should know about mobile Internet, mobile web and mobi read more »
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We don't see many people over 50 on SNS sites, blogs, etc. so what are they doing on Internet? Here's what they doing in Japan. read more »
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People have been saying that “mobile is the next big thing” for a while in US, but mobile has been “happening” in Japan for years and continues to grow.
According to a report I read, the mobile advertising will become 100 billion yen (US$1 billion) read more »
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Li Evans writes, "Twitter is growing at a phenomenal pace. There's no doubt that as more and more companies adopt new communication platforms like Twitter into their marketing strategies, as well as allowing their employees to use them, some rules read more »
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Japan's new social bookmarking service in Japan let's you post a comment on the page (you can even select the area of the page you want to comment), and read the comments left by other users. read more »
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Rumors have been swirling that Search Engine Strategies has banned certain members of the search community and will be retooling their programming for upcoming shows.

Check out Daron Babin's interview with Kevin Ryan that explains everything. read more »
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Someone posted a bomb threat on Nagano station page on Wikipedia Japan targeting Olympic torch relay on April 26. The Wikipedia posting has been since deleted. The online and Internet security is a growing problem and changing its shape and size all read more »
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SNS sites in Japan keep increasing the number of registered users, but it's a fact that each member is spending less time and log in less frequently. Has SNS peaked in Japan already? If so, what do they need to do to survive and even to increase the read more »
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Google Japan has changed the top page layout by adding tabs and links with icon to some of popular tools and services.
The original post: http://ajpr.com/wordpress/japanese-search-engines/japan-google-top-page
Image of new Google Japan top page: h read more »
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The 2007 Global Search Report contains search engine and PPC marketshare statistics for the following countries: Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, The Ne read more »
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