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Yahoo Japan Rejects Microsoft’s Bing, Selects Google
Score another win for Google. Despite Yahoo’s intimate relationship with Microsoft’s Bing search engine, Yahoo Japan has snubbed Bing in favor of the world search leader.
Yahoo Japan on Tuesday stated it will tap Google’s technology to power both its search engine and search ad-delivery system. But the decision may not have rested fully on Yahoo’s shoulders.
Yahoo only owns 34.8 percent of Yahoo Japan. SoftBank, Japan’s largest distributor of computer, software, peripherals and systems, as well as Japan’s largest publisher of computer-related computer magazines and books, owns 38.6 percent, giving it majority control. Financial terms of the four-year, non-exclusive partnership were not disclosed.
“At the present time, we feel there are quite a few areas where Microsoft is not yet ready,” stated Yahoo Japan CEO Masahiro Inoue at a Tuesday press conference in Tokyo. “Google is one step ahead in Japanese-language services.”
Google: The Better Choice?
Yahoo Japan has long partnered with Google. In 2001, Google announced its first alliance with Yahoo Japan to give Japanese users access to Google’s search results. Yahoo Japan was then, and is now, one of the most visited web sites in Asia, and the partnership opens the door to more opportunity for Google.
Google owns 37.3 percent of Japan’s search market, according to Net Ratings. But Yahoo Japan leads with 53.2 percent. Microsoft’s MSN and Bing have grabbed a collective 2.6 percent. That’s somewhat of a role reversal from the U.S. market, where Google has a dominant 85 percent, compared with only 6.2 percent for Yahoo.
“From the outside it’s a surprise, but when you think about that Yahoo only owns a minority stake in the entity, it’s less so. Its majority owned by SoftBank,” stated Greg Sterling, principal analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence. SoftBank also owns shares in Alibaba Group, which runs Yahoo’s China portal.
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source : www.newsfactor.com
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