Archive for August, 2008

Published by Motoko on 13 Aug 2008

Japanese Search Engines Cheer For Olympians

Both Yahoo Japan and Google Japan displayed Olympic inspired logo on their sites.

Yahoo Japan’s Olympic inspired logo This is Yahoo’s logo cheering for Japanese team. Japan’s Matsuda won bronze medal in the 200-meter butterfly.

Beijing Olympic inspired logo on Google Japan This is Google Japan’s logo on top page today. Google.com has a logo with monkey on rings. It looks that they are using animals from Chinese Astrology.

Published by Motoko on 04 Aug 2008

SES San Jose Speaker Interview – TR Harrington

Since SES Chicago 2007, I had a pleasure of doing “Search Around The World” session with some of the best search engine marketers such as Mr. TR Harrington of Darwinmarketing. And, I was delighted when I had a chance to interview him about fast growing Chinese market.

TR Harrington 1. What is the focus of your presentation at SES San Jose?

There are so many interesting things happening internationally that the challenge for the speakers on this panel is choosing a select few!

I think there are a few key topics to this presentation: namely what is happening online in China, some of the key companies and trends, and how is search different in China, discussing some of the unique differences about Chinese search vs. other markets. Continue Reading »