MSN Japan traffic up

Looks like a Wisenut update

[whats up skip]

Traffic from MSN Japan to our site doubled between Jan 2003 and Feb 2003 so it looks like there must have been an update to the Wisenut data they are using.

[bill]

looks like there must have been an update to the Wisenut data they are using

Why would you say it's Wisenut?

[whats up skip]

I thought we worked out a while back that Looksmart owns Wisenut now. Wisenut is a meta crawler and they are using this to feed to MSN Japan.

The only other option is that it is Inktomi, but I don't seem to have any luck with Inktomi and Japanese pages.

[bill]

Well it also could be those LookSmart listings you had. Even though they hadn't performed for you in the past they might be picking up now.

[whats up skip]

I still have not been able to work this out. I had another look at the Looksmart listing and I cannot see any reason why it would suddenly cause a jump in the traffic.

Nor does it seem to be Wisenut.

MSN Japan now provides 25% of what websearch.yahoo.co.jp provides.

How's this though, goo is now providing just a bit more than MSN Japan!