I knew this story looked familiar; it's because TechCrunch covered it over a year ago. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/23/3-reasons-why-the-internet-in-japa

I knew this story looked familiar; it's because TechCrunch covered it over a year ago. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/23/3-reasons-why-the-internet-in-japan-is-ruled-by-one-single-company-yahoo/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/23/3-reasons-why-the-inter... Unfortunately, it's a mis-leading non-story. Yahoo! controls 33% of Yahoo! Japan allowing a Japanese company to hold a larger share. The result is that Yahoo ultimately worse off than Google (who gets 100% control/revenue from the market share they control). The worst part is that Yahoo's strategy is actually failing them. The story from a year ago cited a larger market share for Yahoo (and it still wasn't a good deal back then, compared to what Google had). The article fails to report than Google's changes (many sound like terrible ideas to me personally) are working in Google's favor.