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room-logo Search Engines in Japan (an extraction)

last updated: 1997.8.12

Robot Style

Systems that use WWW robot for resource gathering. Basically they gather only from the JP domain. The key technologies are Japanese term isolation, Japanese keyword scoring, etc.

Business Products(with banners)
  • goo(NTT,NTT AD+Inktomi)
    		•  500 mil+ pages with various search option [Help]
  • Infoseek Japan (Infoseek+Digital Garage)
    		•  Infoseek Japanese, Also provides [News] [Stock Search] [Help]
  • Excite Japanese Ed.(Excite)
    		•  Excite conceptual search [Help]
  • Infonavigator(FUJITSU, ltd)
    		•  various datasets, interfaces [Help]
  • NETPLAZA (NEC)
    		•  [Help]
  • Hole-in-One(HITACHI Intl. Business co.)
    		•  Also provides Image search and Weather info [Help]
  • Japanese OpenTextIndex (OpenText+NISSHO IWAI)
    		•  Japanese substring match [Help]
    Research Project(no banners)
  • RCAAU Mo-n-do-u
    (Dr. Kawano, et,al. Kyoto univ.)
    		•  extracts related terms by using KDD technology, also provides reverse-link lookup [Help]
  • ODIN (Mr. Harada, Univ. of Tokyo)
    		•  provides +,* operator like AltaVista, Keyword Suggestion based on user's behavior. [Help]
  • Sen-ri-gan (Mr. Tamura)
    		• one of the most famous system in Japan. [Help]
  • NetSCOOP (Kita-lab, TOKUSHIMA univ.)
    		• Superior Japanese processing
  • TITAN(NTT)
    		•  Translation and WAIS index [Mirror] [Help]
  • SEGA Search Engine(SEGA)
    		•  light weight stuff

    Directory style

  • Yahoo! Japanese Ed.
    		•  a kind of standard [Help]
  • NTT Directory(NTT)
    		•  [Help]
  • DRAGON(Japan Search Engine)
    		•  'motivation index' for quick use [Help]
  • 'Acara' Navi(Recruit)
    		•  WebdeW+acara(magazine), uses Japanese thesaurus [Help]
  • CSJ Index(CyberSpace Japan)
    		•  Manually inputted keyword [Help]
  • Yahho(Toyohashi Inst. of Tech)
    		•  grassroot index [Mirror] [Help]
  • Orions Index
    		•  URL search, Prefectural search
  • Nihon Net
    		•  with various useful information
  • JOY Search
    		•  Homepage is here
  • NIKKEI NeT
    		•  Good for company search
  • Nifty Finder
    		•  Search for homepages of Nifty-Serve members
  • NIHONGO Yellow page
    		•  bilingual support
  • KENSAKU-JIROU(Stellar Craft)
    		•  [Help]
  • KENSAKU-KUN(Japan Infosite)
    		•  selected severely [Help]
  • ATLAS(CrossWave Corp.)
    		•  Homepages in TOKAI area
  • NSK Navi(NIHON-KAI Net)
    		•  Homepages in NIHON-KAI area [Help]
  • The guidebook(SHACHIHOKO)
    		•  Town Guide of NAGOYA [Help]
  • Nippon Search Engine(Magic mouse)
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  • CMP-LAB What's COOL
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  • Alcarna(Inter Connect)
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  • Final Directory Search
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  • TV Plus 'TELEPURA'
    		• uses JavaScript

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