Google launches mobile news site for Japanese web users
October 13th, 2006 Leave a comment Visited 41 times, 1 so far today
Google launches mobile news site for Japanese web users
Search engine giant Google has launched a Japanese-language news site for mobile phones. With this, Google aims to expand its market share in the market where most users tend to access the internet using a mobile platform.
This new service provides news from as many as 30 media outlets, including Asahi newspaper and state-run NHK. Google further plans to increase the number of news sources for this new service.
The service shows a list of news headlines with links to services, which are also optimized for use on a mobile device.
Angela Lee, Google’s senior product manager in Tokyo spoke on this service: “People want to check the news all the time. We’ve created something that’s easy to use and view on handsets.”
The company incidentally is already working with local mobile service provider KDDI to provide search services on the mobile platform.
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October 14th, 2006 at 8:11 am
its time to localise.localisation is happening after globalization- :-) .india a company called phonelinx is working on a similar concept.