January 3, 2008 – 8:44 pm
Sorry for the silence.Life is busy. Hopefully some changes we are making will free up our time from tedious things.
Our goal with this blog is to post more often and publish shorter “bite-sized” posts that let you know what we are doing each day.
That’s the goal. We will see how that holds up…
December 14, 2007 – 10:46 pm
I just did some major tweaking of the search settings for Nipponster. Hopefully this will make searches more accurate and remove some of the junk results that sometimes pop-up.
Nipponster is supposed to filter results so that only Japan-related results come through. I know that this is going to require constant tweaking, especially since we want [...]
December 14, 2007 – 10:16 pm
There is so much to do and so little time!
I have a lot of little edits to make here and there on Nipponster.
I’m going to talk about them because I think mistakes should be celebrated! None of us are perfect.
I made some edits to the layout of the search engine results pages (SERPs) and [...]
December 13, 2007 – 10:00 pm
yikes! It’s been awhile since we last posted to the official blog.
Keitaro and James have been really busy with their full time jobs, although James has been helping me with a new Japan-related project that hopefully we will launch sometime soon.
I have been busy with work and Daily J. The latter has been going really [...]
November 20, 2007 – 3:49 pm
Good day to you.
Seems like not many have checked out the new video search feature
The problem is likely the simplicity of our homepage (it is being overlooked.
So I set video search as the home page.
So…“Stay hungry; Keep searching”
And then give us some feedback!–
If you have no idea what I am talking [...]
November 5, 2007 – 12:08 am
I have a fever and the only prescription is more VIDEO!
If you missed it on the front page, I would like to present to you Nipponster Video Search!
All Japan-related videos, all the time.
Take it for a spin!
Here’s a screenshot of the search results page:
You can watch the videos right on the search results page!
October 29, 2007 – 2:27 am
Ok ok.
Yes, finally some new hot searches. I have been really bad about approving new hot searches over the past 2 weeks or so…
Not good.
Here are the new ones:
genpatsu shinsai
anti-groping software
free manga
Remember, to see past hot searches visit the ArchivesAlso here are a few search suggestions:Keeling’s Guide to Japan
Japanese mascots
My fellow Japan-enthusiasts…
“Stay hungry; keep searching!”
October 15, 2007 – 7:19 pm
Kaizen, Baby!We are trying to make the Nipponster Japan Toolbar better and better all the time
Kaizen (改善) - continuous improvement
If you are out of the loop when it comes to our Japan Toolbar, and the cool tools we’ve been working on, check out this previous post: Free Internet Broadcast Japanese TV!
And it you haven’t downloaded [...]
October 12, 2007 – 4:36 am
I was super excited today.I just finished the major work I had to do on some improvements we are making to the toolbar.
I will be posting more about that soon. Good stuff it is.
We are also cooking up some fun with the search engine.Something new and exciting.
So do as the title and please stay tuned!
October 9, 2007 – 2:07 am
Found this on the Nipponster hot search I just archived Tokyo time lapse video(Thanks to sparkplugged)
Here are the newly approved hot searches:
secret Okinawa pact
rice patty art harvest
And a timely and fun suggestion:
Rubik’s cube championship
“stay hungry; keep searching!”
Nipponster Web Search
Nipponster Video Search
Nipponster Japan Toolbar