Search engine market in Japan

The Japanese search engine market has an interesting configuration because controlled by an American company which is not Google: Yahoo.

I clearly believe that if Yahoo lost Japan everything is over for him because Japan may influence other countries in the Asian Pacific region.

Date: May 2009

Source: Ga-Pro

On January the 23rd 2008 the results were the following according to the same source:

Date: January 2008

Source: Ga-Pro

So here we can see that there is more or less some changes. In more than one year Google took between 4 to 6%(Biglobe using Google technologies) and Yahoo lost only one.

MSN lost 2%.

As a conclusion I would say that the Japanese market is mature and recognizes only two search engines: Yahoo and Google.