http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/favicon.ico http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/rss/author:motoko-hunt Blog author RSS en http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:meet-sempo-asia-at-events-in-china-india-japan-and-singapore SEMPO Asia will involve in industry events and conferences in Asia (China, India, Japan and Singapore) this year including AdTech, SMX and Search Engine Strategies, where many of SEMPO Asia members are asked to speak. At each event, SEMPO Asia will have a booth and a networking meeting. SEMPO members will receive some additional benefits, including discount for registration fee (discount code required). Wed, 21 May 2008 17:52:07 +0100 http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:twitter-japan-with-ads Twitter Japan is open with Japanese language interface. You can also chose Japanese language option from existing Twitter home page. Twitter already have many Japanese users, and the users can Twit in Japanese characters. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:12:01 +0100 http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:japan-internet-salary-survey Softbank and Human Capital KK of Japan conducted a salary survey with 100 Internet marketers and 100 Internet sales people in Japan. The results show that the average sales person in Internet industry makes 5.40mil yen/year (about US$53K) and average marketer in Internet industry makes 5.01mil yen/year (about US$50K). Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:35:51 +0100 http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:google-malaysia Malaysian Prime Minister said that he spoke with Google about their intension to setting up an operation in Malaysia, and hopes that it would boost Malaysia's ICT industry. Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:45:47 +0100 http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:access-to-video-sharing-sites-grew-216-in-japan The number of access to video sharing web sites grew 216% in Japan in 2007 from the previous year. According to Video Research Interactive (VRI), there were more than 24 million accesses to video sharing web sites in 2007. Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:50:27 +0100 http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:2007-top-searhed-keywords-in-japan Livedoor, Yahoo Japan and Google Japan have announced their top searched terms in 2007. The lists show that keywords related to Web2.0 were very popular in 2007. Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:26:53 +0100 http://www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com/article:sempo-asia-china-india-japan-and-more Since this is my first article here, I'd like to talk a bit about SEMPO Asia Working Group and its activities. As you may know, the Internet market has been growing in Asia quite rapidly, in fact, 37% of Internet users are in Asia, and 2 out of top 5 languages on Internet are Asian languages (#2:India and #4:Japan). Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:20:45 +0100