Re: [edict-jmdict] Google and Yahoo counts

[Ben Bullock <benkasminbullock@*********>]

No, I don't know but I found this article:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/27/yahoo-japan-to-use-google-search-and-not-bing-in-the-future/

and this one

http://thenextweb.com/asia/2010/12/03/yahoo-japan-gets-approval-to-use-google-search/

Wandering off into irrelevancies, but Yahoo! Japan has been a
different company for some time now. They're part of something called
SoftBank. They are rather a persistent bunch and I have had them ring
up my house offering to give me a modem for their ADSL service about
twenty times. I keep telling them that ADSL doesn't work in my area,
but it's so hard to get them off the phone politely that I have
actually to put the phone down while they are still talking. Twice I
actually got a modem on the promise that it was free then was asked to
pay them to send it back to them. They also run "Yahoo Auctions" which
is Japan's answer to eBay.



On 3 March 2011 16:12, Jim Breen <jimbreen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/3/3 Ben Bullock <benkasminbullock@gmail.com>:
>> I may be misguided but you're not using Yahoo Japan are you? That's a
>> completely different company from Yahoo in the USA. Yahoo Japan
>> (search.yahoo.co.jp) gives the same results as Google in the same
>> order as Google. I think they get them from Google by some kind of
>> arrangement.
>>
>> search.yahoo.com is separate from Yahoo Japan and gives completely
>> different results.
>
> Yes, I am using Yahoo Japan. I've done that for years, as I found the
> general yahoo.com useless for Japanese (admittedly the last time I
> looked at the difference thoroughly was about 5 years ago.)
>
> Do you know when they started using Google? Back in 2005
> Yahoo Japan was giving different results to Google. I did a quickie
> paper comparing hem:
> http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/snlp/wwwjsrch.html
>
> Thanks
>
> Jim
>
> --
> Jim Breen
> Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Clayton School of IT, Monash University
> Vice-president: Hawthorn Rowing Club, Treasurer: Japanese Studies Centre
> Graduate student: Language Technology Group, University of Melbourne
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>