Yahoo! Japan Releases Search Data on Keywords in Real Time
After releasing the most searched keyword terms in Japan for 2012, Yahoo! Japan decided to go one step further and is now releasing keyword data in real time and in three different categories. The categories are very similar to those in the annual review, but it is a little less comprehensive and the presentation differs [...]
Chinese Language Top-Level Domains Coming in 2013
We have seen for some time that Chinese characters have been available for use in the website URL, but this latest announcement from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will take foreign language web addresses to a whole new level. Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report blog informs us that we [...]
Yahoo! Japan Search Results Soon to Include Naver Matome Pages
On March 28, Yahoo! Japan and NHN Japan jointly announced their closer co-operation for organic search. The project these two Internet giants are working on at the moment encompasses the development of a search engine specifically made for the extremely popular content curation platform ‘Naver Matome’. This search engine will be deployed in two different [...]
Naver Search Result’s New Social Sharing Options
After our post on the Facebook integration on Yahoo! Japan, we would like to present another social media integration of a major search engine in East Asia. This time, your Korea SEO work might get a little more interesting. On February 21, Naver announced the implementation of social sharing right from within the SERP, similar [...]
China’s B2C Market Status
Earlier this week, Enfodesk released figures to describe China’s 2012 B2C market share. After a bit of digging, we the following chart from China Internet Watch. As you can see, Tmall accounts for the largest portion of the pie, with just over 44% share of the market. 360buy and Tencent trail behind in 2nd and [...]
New Category ‘Opencast’ in the Naver Universal SERP
Naver has a very unique way of displaying its search engine results pages (SERP) and in our blog post on Naver Cafe optimisation we already gave a short overview on the composition of Naver’s universal SERP. On February 21, Naver officially announced and implemented the inclusion of its Opencast content as an own category into [...]
