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bill - 6:02 am on Feb 1, 2012 (gmt 0)


Yahoo Japan roughly mirrored the backend SE choices of Yahoo elsewhere, although there was usually a lag between them. The decision of Yahoo Japan to go with Google for a backend came with the Yahoo/Bing tie-up. Microsoft didn't have a good enough PPC engine compared to Overture for Japanese. That probably played a big factor.

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