But did you know that Google is the underdog in a number of markets?

Russia has Yandex

China has Baidu

Yahoo.jp is Japan’s largest

And Sezman has the Czech Republic.

In the two Eastern Europe cases they beat Google by supporting their local language better than Google.  In Asia I couldn’t dig up any information indicating that anything  similar had happened.

For as much as I love Google I do think it deserves some strong competition, un-fortunately I am unwilling to help with that as is likely the case with many Google loyals.

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Or at least thats the headline. All the article has is the standard “The Economist welcomes your views.”  At time of writing there are 27 comments and I must say, these commenters know their archetypes.

The ‘full’ article can be found on the site for now, http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15993648&fsrc=rss , image below the fold for posterity:

You can do this in the “Add new domain” page by changing the “Web directory” field for the sub-domain “folder.example.com” from “/home/username/folder.example.com” to “/home/username/example.com/folder”

Example screenshot follows.

Things I like:

• Backend dosn’t hide options behind menus or other pages
• Strictly enforced coding style
• Theme markup encourages presentation to be removed from data manipulation
• A block system that effectively gives users a ton of widget panels, and everything is placed like a WP widget would be
• A form api that takes care of mundane and verbose html input markup
• A ton of plugins that are rather generic yet well integrated with Drupal allowing for easy adoption and extension.
• A focus on security even if at the cost of higher minimum skill set for usage.

What I dislike:

• code style enforces the use of spaces instead of tab chars, which is positively insane.

In the end I like Drupal and am currently working on a port of the default WordPress Theme.

• I’ve started adding descriptions from the map’s orignal topic if there is a useful one there.
• I’ve got some more Japanese studying done.
• Did well, I think, on my last Social Test hope I also do well on the finals.

PS: Is there really no one that wants to help me get maps up?

• It would be a related URL so that if we play the cards right we might just be able to get it to show up on google searches.
• It would be wordpress based, include a directory of maps and host maps.
• There should be a easy  to use GUI tool for changing maps, the SAMs are so simple it is a shame that nothing automated has been made.
• It would be a platform for both sides of the community, if new users want to go deeper they may.  As I see it now the amount of drama will simply stare new users away.
• It can be hosted on my dreamhost account although if it gets big as I hope it does ads can be added.  Thats neither here nor there though.

The entire point of this would be to get new players to SMR and get the content that is already out there to people.  There is a need for this as can be seen from the fact that people are still downlaoding SMRI.

Step #1: Change your store location to Japan if it is not already set to that. This can be done by scrolling to the bottom of the Store page and selecting the location, Japan is at the very bottom.

Step #2: Then copy and paste “ニコニコ” into the search bar and hit enter.

Step #3: Download the app titled”ニコニコ動画”, to do this click “get app”.

Step #4: Sync your iPod Touch/iPhone so that the application shows up there.  You can now safly change back to your local itunes location, the Nico nico app will not disappear.

Step #5: Start the application, this might take a few seconds. Then switch the far right tap labeled “設定”

Step #6: Enter the top menu, this one is labeled “アカウント設定”

Step #7:  The top two feilds are for your Nico nico account infromation. “メールドレス” is where you input your email. “パスウーント” is for your password.  Once you have these filled your done, you can now start viewing videos by going to the far left and selecting a catogory.

From left to right the Nico Nico Douga app taps are:

Categories – Featured – My Favorites – Search – Settings

Step #1: Change your store location to Japan, this can be done by scrolling to the bottom of the Store page and selecting the location, Japan is at the very bottom.

Step #2: You then need to try and download app, it does not matter which one so just copy and paste this　”ニコニコ” into the search bar and hit enter.

Step #3: Try and download the app titled”ニコニコ動画”, to do this click “get app”.

Step #4: You should then get a pop-up like this one, press “Create New Account”:

Step #5: You should then see a screen like this, if yours is in Japanese just click where “Continue” is in screenshot.

Step #6: This is jsut the EULA, agree to it without reading as you would any other.

Step #7: Fill in the fields correctly, although you can use a random stuff for the password recovery section.

Step #8: First check the “none” option. You can skip adding a itunes card unless you want to spend money.  Only the “Postal code” and “Prefecture” have to have valid information.  Use 170-3293 and Tokyo as I have done, although you can just as easily go hunting for others it does not matter so long as they are valid.