Yahoo Japan switches to Google search
If there was any doubt that Yahoo Japan is separate from Yahoo in the United States, let this dispel it: Yahoo Japan has signed a deal to use Google's search engine rather than Microsoft's.
The deal, reported Monday by All Things Digital, was confirmed later that day with a Google Japan blog post.
In the post, Daniel Alegre, vice president of Google's Asia Pacific and Japan operations, said Yahoo Japan will use Google search results and Google's technology for supplying the accompanying search ads. With such partnerships, revenue from the search ads is shared between the Web site and the company that supplies the ads, in this case Yahoo Japan and Google, respectively.
The deal is a blow to Microsoft, which has been working for years to match not just the utility of Google's market-leading search service, but also its scale. Yahoo plugged in Microsoft's Bing search engine to supply search results, but evidently Microsoft couldn't convince Yahoo Japan to follow suit in that prime market.
Yahoo is an investor in Yahoo Japan, but it's not the only one--Softbank holds a bigger share--so Yahoo Japan's decisions don't necessarily align with that of Yahoo.
Update, 11:28 a.m. PDT: In response to news of the deal, Microsoft cried foul and cited a failed Yahoo-Google tie-up in North America. In a statement, Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, said:
This agreement is even more anticompetitive than Google's deal with Yahoo in the United States and Canada that the Department of Justice found to be illegal. The 2008 deal would have locked up 90 percent of paid search advertising. This deal gives Google virtually 100 percent of all searches in Japan, both paid and unpaid. It means there will be no search competition in Japan and that Google will end up controlling all personal search information for all Japanese consumers and businesses.
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If this keeps up (with other countries, maybe Ballmer should consider giving up. This whole thing with Bing, Yahoo!, and etc. is nothing more than a drain on Microsoft's cash. The money could be put to better use, IMHO. How so? They could've put the money into Courier for starters, or used it to push into becoming more vertically integrated. The whole search/ad thing makes money, sure - if you're the top dog. Otherwise it's a massive waste of cash.
Hint: They paid for those points - either by buying them from Yahoo, or by buying them directly from the consumer.
Not exactly a self-sustaining model there.
When Microsoft finally failed to buy Yahoo in 2008, Steve Ballmer was asked so many times by the media if they are going to try again, his answer was very straight, Microsoft will not try again, they desisted, they gave up, they were tired of Yahoo leaders opposing the deal by all means.. If Yahoo is allowing that kind of deal, it is much later after the deal failed in 2008, and it has to be seem if that happens.
Yes, Yahoo Japan, it is an independent company, where... Jerry Yang, one of the Yahoo co-founders and one of the Yahoo top leaders, is seating in its Board Of Directors, And Yahoo America has a 33% stake in Yahoo Japan.
Got that CTO-DUDE?? Get your facts straight before you start trolling.
I also wonder if all the CCTLDs for Yahoo are free to choose Google or is it just Japan because of its share holding?
Please explain how yahoo was not "allowed" to partner with google. This should be amusing...
Ballmer needs to stop staring Google search down, his real enemies are Android and iOS.
I suppose this means Yahoo has given up on their own search engine with the North American company going with Bing and Japan going with Google?
Next thing you know Yahoo Japan will be using Google email, and Google app and Google downloads....
Maybe we should just call them Gooohoo.
We tried BING and did not like the interface or the search results.
Google returns within on page what I/we were loking for with BING/BONG we have to go looking and that gets messy NOT GOOD.
We will be staying with GOOGLE at least that is our choice and NOT as with so many installs it you DONT read the fine print and unchech the tick boxes you all of a sudden have BING/BONG as you preferance and this is one of the main problems I have with BING, I dont want it and wont have it on our systems, yet MS thinks it has a god given right to install its BING/BONG they can p*** off.
- by tohnoseika July 27, 2010 5:59 PM PDT
- surprised!!0_0..how can Google replace YahooJP!!time's changing?
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