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Nipponkan: February 2007
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007. Search box mock-ups in Japanese advertising. As of lately, a lot of Japanese train and TV ads feature a mocked up web search box, suggesting the keyword you should use for getting to the site of the vendor in question,. Having to remember its (often awkward) non-Japanese URL an interesting evolution and in no time more widespread than QR codes. Or so it seems). The first example is Jindaiji Residence. With the search term バンクベスト ("Bank Best"). Not too great search result...