Re: [tlug] Browser share in Japan?

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi Darren,


On 03/11/2011 09:55 AM, Darren Cook wrote:
> Does anyone freely publish browser market share for just Japan? Either
> some company collating lots of results, or analysis for a big site.
> Stats for Yahoo Japan would be just perfect! (Being open source, I
> thought ja.wikipedia.org might publish log analysis, but I couldn't find
> anything.)


I know this helps you very little (maybe even not at all?), 
but I came across this paper just now:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.68.6279

Title is "A study of mobile search queries in Japan".

Some of the papers that it cites or papers that cite it 
might lead you in the right direction -- including 
information about Korea and China.

I know this is an active research area but usually this data 
isn't public for privacy reasons.  Based on the paper's 
acknowledgments, it seems the authors knew someone in Yahoo...

If your reasons are valid, it might be possible for Yahoo 
Japan to provide you aggregated form of the data.  You would 
have to sell your reason to them.  For this paper, I can at 
least guess that maybe Yahoo benefits because someone they 
trust is able to analyze their data for them and then they 
can better target their search engine.

Ray