This week Overture Japan announced that Yahoo! Japan has become it’s parent company. Overture Japan still maintains it’s identity unlike the US Overture which turned into Yahoo Publishing.
Hopefully they will offer a publishing program for webmasters but we’ll have to wait to find out.
Yahoo!Japan starts みんなのトピックス(Everyone’s Topics) . The format is similar to Digg the social news site dominating in the US. Instead of starting off with no content Yahoo!Japan seemed to team up with existing social news sites Newsing, Buzzurl, & Choix.
Initially it seems the links are actually SEO friendly & I assume this is to encourage users to post their content. I would recommend using the service now before in the future the URLs move to being redirects. Since the Yahoo! directory went this way years ago I’d only assume that Minna No Topics will go this route also after it gets popular.
It might take a little while for users to get used to it but I’m sure those in SEO are already taking advantage of the site…
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