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Originally Posted by Evil Ryan
You actually do not need a .jp domain to get listed in the Japanese search engines, take a look at http://www.google.co.jp for example, there are plenty of regular .coms listed in the results  |
Yes, I've seen that, but I don't know what SERPS display in a browser that only displays Japanese (that is, what a "normal" Japanese surfer would see) - whether there's a difference - and also whether a Japanese surfer would trust a .jp site more than a .com. My suspicion is that there are differences in what they see as well as whether they'd be more likely to check out a .jp domain.