Published by Motoko on 24 Sep 2007
Quite often, I receive inquiries and requests to submit the site information to Japanese popular search engines on their behalf. Whenever I receive these requests, I check following before I reply to them:
While site/pages being indexed by the search engines is important, Continue Reading »
Published by Motoko on 17 Sep 2007
I live and work in US, but I still read, write and speak in Japanese on daily basis. Out of these three skills, the writing skill (”Kanji writing skill” to be precise) has changed most in the past 10-15 years, not because where I live, but because how I write has changed. As said, I write in Japanese everyday, but I rarely hand-write and type everything for both work and personal communications. Continue Reading »
Published by Motoko on 13 Sep 2007
Japan’s search engine “goo” has been creating variety of unique search engines such as blog search, map search, train schedule search, and Wikipedia article search. On Sept. 12, they open the test version of “5W1H Search“. With “5W1H”, after you enter search phrase, you select which results you’d like to see from 5W1H. Continue Reading »
