Japan plans Internet search engine to challenge Google, Yahoo

this project will either disappear or go by totally unnoticed by us common folk

 

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Ha Ha!

 

Next-generation Internet Japanese search engine, iPod model naming is "Sah-woo?"? kw., "Challenge Google and Yahoo"

 

Yahoo and Google's rivals ? ha ha ha ha....
Yahoo and Google staff must be laughing uncontrolably.

 

"Yahoo and Googles's rivals?"

Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

 

reverse engineered the technology necessary ! Explains why Japan is light years behind the rest of the planet when it comes to innovation. They are back to those pre 60's days when they sat around tearin apart on engine after another to see how it worked. Another sign that the sun has set on Japan.

 

You're killing me, no more please....
ha, ha, ha.....

 

"Explains why Japan is light years behind the rest of the planet when it comes to innovation"

Come out of your cave and you will that it is not the case. Asimo, anyone?

 

"Explains why Japan is light years behind the rest of the planet when it comes to innovation."

"Japan's humanoid robots
From The Economist print edition

Why the Japanese want their robots to act more like humans

Robots, you see, are wonderful creatures, as many a Japanese will tell you. They are getting more adept all the time, and before too long will be able to do cheaply and easily many tasks that human workers do now. They will care for the sick, collect the rubbish, guard homes and offices, and give directions on the street.

This is great news in Japan, where the population has peaked, and may have begun shrinking in 2005. With too few young workers supporting an ageing population, somebody—or something—needs to fill the gap, especially since many of Japan's young people will be needed in science, business and other creative or knowledge-intensive jobs.

Many workers from low-wage countries are eager to work in Japan. The Philippines, for example, has over 350,000 trained nurses, and has been pleading with Japan—which accepts only a token few—to let more in. Foreign pundits keep telling Japan to do itself a favour and make better use of cheap imported labour. But the consensus among Japanese is that visions of a future in which immigrant workers live harmoniously and unobtrusively in Japan are pure fancy. Making humanoid robots is clearly the simple and practical way to go.

Japan certainly has the technology. It is already the world leader in making industrial robots, which look nothing like pets or people but increasingly do much of the work in its factories. Japan is also racing far ahead of other countries in developing robots with more human features, or that can interact more easily with people. A government report released this May estimated that the market for “service robots” will reach ¥1.1 trillion ($10 billion) within a decade.

The country showed off its newest robots at a world exposition this summer in Aichi prefecture. More than 22m visitors came, 95% of them Japanese. The robots stole the show, from the nanny robot that babysits to a Toyota that plays a trumpet. And Japan's robots do not confine their talents to controlled environments. As they gain skills and confidence, robots such as Sony's QRIO (pronounced “curio”) and Honda's ASIMO are venturing to unlikely places. They have attended factory openings, greeted foreign leaders, and rung the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange. ASIMO can even take the stage to accept awards.

So Japan will need workers, and it is learning how to make robots that can do many of their jobs."

"Another sign that the sun has set on Japan". Time to relocate to first world China?

 

oh no! im worried about the internet so i am going to post on the internet about it! search engines!! aaahhh!!

by the way, there was(is) a search engine that can search for music and video. haha, i forgot the url though...i think it was iquik.net/com or something like that. I will try it later.

 

... is that they'll mean to challenge Yahoo and Google on a Japanese level. Everybody laughs at it. But from a Japanese view, imagine you're tired of searching on Google or Yahoo for sites and half of the time you don't find what you're looking for because you search in kana or romaji Japanese. Wouldn't you be happy when there is a search engine aimed at the Japanese internet, that provides the information you're looking for?
Then imagine you're an easy media-influenced Japanese person and this search engine happens to provide an accurate advertising based on your search and gives you product ads from brands and stores available near you-> woohoo party!!

Personally I'd be very happy if the engine works as it should work and what I'd love to have in it is some function to search in English or romaji and get japanese results.
(I.E. I'd search for 'cars' or 'kuruma'
and I check 「日本語」, the site will give me also any result with 「くるま」　or 「車」 in it. ^_^)
that would be awsome.

about the musc search function, it's not clear but I imagine they dont link to pirated mp3's but to commercially available music online. (not a big deal then because if I search any J-pop artist in Google I get a lot of links to online stores.)
Then again if it would be hourly updating the current available music for sale as it comes on the market, ...

 

that Google would not supercede whatever the gov does? Ummmmmm it would be cheaper to buy both Google and Yahoo out and merge them. If they really know what they are doing the gov would hire the top 10 people from both companies, kind of like what Sony did when the pulled out all the Nintendo, Sega guys along with Enix and Square back in the good ol'days.

Anyway I heard this kind of talk with the OS for Japanese (TRON) a decade ago supposed to take out MS. Guess that didn't work out for the main stream. iTRON was successful, but how many people know about that. Notice however they do have key companies in this area like NTT (Goo, Infoseek) and NEC. Although missing Sony and many other Softbank like highend companies. What they need is an AI driven multi-cell processing super computer built in to my wrist watch that can search everybodies computer for files a need (like yesterdays variety program I missed or some personal email) They need an edge and they need the right people to drive it not relics...

 

"incorporate the culture and values of Japan so that users could search for information by typing even vaguely remembered Japanese words"

First, the "incorporate the culture and values of Japan" sounds rather worrying! What exactly does that mean? Filtering out whinging gaijin?

Next is "search for information by typing even vaguely remembered Japanese words"? Is this just a Japanese version of Google's spell check? That would be nice, as would be incorporating Japanese parsing and grammar, like in Google if you search for "eat" you can also get "eating", "eats", "ate", etc in the matches. Also, I would really love it if it could search automatically for the word in all mixes of kanji, katakana and hiragana - for example, my work involves the word "kaizan" but the second kanji "zan" sometimes appears as hiragana or even katakana.

 

"incorporate the culture and values of Japan so that users could search for information by typing even vaguely remembered Japanese words"

First: They are thinking in explaining old japanese stuf only or they include today Japan`s culture? For example, things like: NEETs, DINKS, Freeters, Ijime, Sokaisha, Sarariman, karoshi, apato, manshion, bozozoku, yakuza, amakudary, etc... You know... the stuf we read in the papers or see in the news.

And Second: What about the uglie old stuf? Like "comfort womens". We get the neutral version or the new "official version". Honestli, you ever trust in the gov or you prefer a neutral source?