AFP, July, 2010
TOKYO (AFP) Japan’s top Internet portal Yahoo! Japan may create a search alliance with Google, in a deal that would dominate the Japanese market and be a possible blow to Microsoft, a report said Tuesday.
The agreement between Yahoo! Japan, which is 40 percent owned by telecoms operator Softbank, and the US search giant could be announced later Tuesday, Dow Jones Newswires said.
“We’ve been considering changing our search engine, and Google is one option,” Yahoo! Japan spokesman Toru Nagano told AFP, adding that “nothing official” had been decided.
If Google and Yahoo! Japan do form an alliance, the pair would control almost the entire Japanese search market.
Yahoo! Japan currently has just over a 56 percent share of the search market and Google has about…
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