Google Japan
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Several blogs has recently reported that the official Google Japan homepage has been redesigned, as some of you are seeing it (and as the Google Japan blog reports). Perhaps this only shows in some geo location – I can’t see any changes yet – but Colin Colehour posted some screenshots in the forum. As far as I can tell the four tabs consist of:
1) Gmail, YouTube, News, Maps, and Transit (?)
2) Image search, Notebook (?) Blog search, Books, Google Desktop
3) Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Reader, Google Toolbar
4) YouTube (again), Picasa, Blogger, Google Earth
Several of Google’s localized sites look or behave different to Google.com, like auto-completion in China, or an animated hover menu in Korea. Google’s Emmanuel Sauquet in regards to Google Japan’s mobile strategy told BusinessWeek, “Our fundamental strategy is to take ideas from Japan and apply them to other markets.†I am wondering whether Google will actually implement the new design idea in other geo markets.
