Techmeme is buzzing about the news that Yahoo Japan has selected Google to power its search engine, as opposed to Bing, which is powering Yahoo here in the U.S.

I can honestly say, I am not surprised. Yahoo Japan had the option to go with Bing or someone else like Google and they picked Google. Back in the day, before Yahoo had their own search engine, Google powered Yahoo’s search results (screen shot).

The Google Japan blog wrote about it and Yahoo Japan published a press release. Here is the translated text…

Google:

And the Yahoo release also has an image and a FAQs:

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