NetRatings’ report on Japanese main portal sites usage shows interesting facts.
It reports that people visit Yahoo Japan site spend most time on Yahoo Auction site (26%), which is much higher than Yahoo’s top page (15%). It also reports that people visit Google Japan site spend most time in Search (74%), and many people come to goo spend most time in Blog (23%).

Yahoo Japan:
- Auction pages (26%)
- Top page (15%)
- Mail pages (7%)
- News pages (7%)
- Search pages (6%)

Google Japan:
- Search pages (74%)
- Gmail pages (6%)
- Image search pages (5%)
- News pages (3%)
- Map service pages (2%)

MSN Japan:
- Mail pages (34%)
- MSN top page (21%)
- Search pages (17%)

goo:
- Blog pages (23%)
- Mail pages (8%)
- Top page (8%)

Yahoo still has far more visits than Google, but only 6% of those use the search function. hmmmm.

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