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Yahoo Japan president says Google isn’t so great
Motoko Hunt Jan 12, 2010 During the interview with Nikkei Business, Yahoo Japan’s president Inoue said that he wasn’t impressed by some of the popular Google services such as Street View, Book Search and AdWords.
He thinks that those services are either in the “gray area (of the law)” or copies of someone else’s services, and Yahoo Japan’s legal department would never allow the company to offer them.
Also during the interview, he commented that the smartphone market would have a huge shift, especially in the application related market, when the non-business users become a big part of smartphone user base.
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January 12th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
When I first saw the title I thought that Japan president says that :), so I was curious why Japan government does not like Google?
January 13th, 2010 at 11:55 am
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January 13th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Street view is pretty cool.
I managed to virtually stand outside my old school that I attended in Australia 20 years ago and it was like almost being there. (I am based in Spain now)
Book Search, not really for me.
Adwords, although not a revealtion has in factc made lots of people lots of money.
He is just jealouos I think.
January 13th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
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