[Asiajin] It’s Official Now. Google Announces Their Search Platform Provided To Yahoo! Japan

Asiajin 7/27/2010

Google Asia Pacific and Japan vice president Daniel Alegre announced on official Google Japan blog that Google’s search technology is again provided to Yahoo! Japan.

According to the article, Yahoo! Japan uses Google’s search engine as a backend, is able to customize frontend in any way. Google emphasizes that Yahoo! Japan has freehand on how to display search results, what original experiences to offer.

Google also provides search advertising platform to Yahoo! Japan. It is said that the data of advertisers and ads are not shared between Google and Yahoo! Japan. ...