Japanese search engine usage Feb-March 2003

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[David_M]

Japanese search engine usage
[netnavi.nikkeibp.co.jp ]
Question1: which do you often use? (multiple answers possible)
Question2: Of the engines that you use, which gives you the best match? (multiple answers possible)

Question3: How often do you use a search engine?

Question4: Any particular service you like? (multiple answers possible)

Question5: Have you searched using one of these keywords? (multiple answers possible)

[Tor]

Excellent info. David_M! Thank`s for translating the questions for us. ;)

[bill]

Thanks for that link David. That's close to what I've seen, but Infoseek and MSN are switched. Sometimes Infoseek comes in even lower.

That survey is from one of Nikkei Business Publications many magazines. They're probably one of the biggest publishers of their sort in Japan.

[takagi]

For those members who cannot read katakana, or don't know where find the URL for these sites:

[url=http://www.google.co.jp]Google[/url] . . . . 69%
[url=http://www.yahoo.co.jp/]Yahoo! Japan[/url] . 68%
[url=http://www.goo.ne.jp/]Goo[/url]. . . . . . 33%
[url=http://www.infoseek.co.jp]Infoseek[/url] . . . 23%
[url=http://search.msn.co.jp/]MSN[/url]. . . . . . 13%
[url=http://www.excite.co.jp/]Excite[/url] . . . . 12%
[url=http://search.biglobe.ne.jp/]Biglobe[/url] . . . . 9%
[url=http://www.lycos.co.jp/]Lycos Japan[/url] . . 8%
[url=http://www.fresheye.com/]FreshEYE[/url]. . . . 5%
[url=http://www.naver.co.jp/]NAVER[/url] . . . . . 2%
Others. . . . . 1%

[whats up skip]

Of course this does not correspond the number of searches or traffic generated to an average site by the different search engines.

We are still seeing significantly more traffic coming from Yahoo than Google. We do have one paid listing in Yahoo JP.