Japan and Google Japan sites.

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All of this follows a statement Google Chairman Eric Schmidt made in Japan last night that it had "not done anything yet" regarding Google Maps on iOS. So, if you've upgraded to iOS 6, are you sticking with the new app or trying to find some other way to avoid navigation related mishaps until Gmaps is back?

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Japan, plus Google chipping away at No. 2.

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Google could have just thrown money at Japan (which is what Bing tried to do) and they probably will make a donation.

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Japan announced that it is switching to the Google search engine as the back-end search technology.

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After launching original YouTube channels in Europe and the U.S., Google is set to roll out a slate of new online programming in Japan.

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Through this significant coup Google will power more than 90 per cent of all Internet search queries in the Japan market, but the consumer user interface would be different on Yahoo!

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This summer, for example, we had students working summer jobs and internships in companies all over the world, in workplaces at Google, Microsoft, Cisco and Apple, at manufacturers in Australia, China and Japan, financial service firms on Wall Street and tech firms in Israel.

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