Google may be the leader in the worldwide search engine market, but in Nippon, it has some catching up to do: In 2007, Yahoo Japan saw a whopping 76% of the nearly 350 billion search engine and portal ...

Matt Cutts twittered that Google.co.jp was penalized for paying for blogger reviews. If you look at the FriendFeed details, you will see Matt first said, “Google.co.jp PageRank is now ~5 instead of ~9 ...

Google has signed its first power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Japan. First reported by Nikkei Asia and later confirmed by the company, Google has signed solar PPAs totaling 60MW with Clean Energy ...

As many of the readers of Search Engine Journal may know, I am currently living outside of Tokyo, Japan and have been working on connecting with Japanese search engines and bloggers. Last year at a ...

While some of us may have embraced Google Street View for its novelty and functionality, the Japanese folks are apparently worried of the continued invasion of privacy of Google’s satellite mapping ...

Google may have stopped putting out dozens of April Fools’ videos every year, but Googlers in Japan still love a good joke – and the latest is ridiculous keyboard that they’re called Gboard Bar ...

Google has signed two renewable energy supply agreements in Japan to support operations at its sole data center in the country, located in Inzai. It signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) ...

WTF?! Do you find that your keyboard is too conventional? Are you looking to reduce your words-per-minute count to single figures? Google Japan has the answer with the Gboard bar, a keyboard that ...

Several years ago, Google Japan started cooking up weird novelty keyboards as an annual April Fools’ Day prank. Most of the creations, including a working version of Google’s mobile Gboard keyboard ...

On Monday, we covered an embarrassing pay-per-post campaign Google launched in Japan with the aim of boosting awareness of a new keyword hitlist box on the Google Japan top page. It now turns out the ...