Tag: Naver
Online Aerial, Panorama and Indoor photography
by Channy Yun on Aug.03, 2009, under Geospatial Web
Google has innovated online geospatial service as like Google Maps with high quality satellite images, street view, oceanic exploration and Google Earth with 3D images and SketchUP in global scale. They were brilliant ideas and many people were impressed.
But, recently Korean web service made another remarkable map services in local scale. Daum and Naver invested many money to build these high quality service too.
Aerial Photography
Daum launched new map features "road view" and "sky view" on January in this year. The image of sky view is converted into high-resolution aerial photography, with the restaurant's roof, driveway and the sea becoming ...
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:Aerial, Daum, Maps, Naver, Panorama
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NHN earned 860 million dollars in 2008
by Channy Yun on Feb.04, 2009, under Business
NHN announced earning surprise of 2008 year with increasing over 30% sales and income compared with 2007. According to corporate earning presentation, the total sales in 2008 reached 8.6 hundred million US dollars and net income did 2.6 hundred million US dollars. It was just discounted because of weaken Korean won.
2008
2007
Amount Increased
Rate(%)
Sales
1,208,126,638
920,208,853
287,917,785
31.29
Operating Income
491,174,801
389,491,413
101,683,388
26.11
Net profit form continuing operation before corporate income Tax
517,100,579
394,317,310
122,783,268
31.14
Net Income
365,702,271
280,107,718
85,594,553
30.56
(Thousand Korean WON)
NHN has two business properties of Naver.com (search portal) 70% including search and display advertisement and Hangame.com (online game) 30% based on user-charged game service.
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:Hangame, Naver, Sales
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Daum gains 20% share in search market
by Channy Yun on Feb.03, 2009, under Trends
Daum, the #2 largest Internet portal in Korea gains 20% share in Korean search market. As you know, Korea is one of Google failed countries against local search engine. Google is still behind others in Russia, the Czech Republic, Korea, China and Japan. Yandex, Seznam, Naver, Baidu and Yahoo! Japan are all the leaders in each of these nations respectively.
Naver has still dominated 75% market share and reached 10 times profit compared with Daum's. According to Comscore's report, NHN was also #5 search engine in the world.
But, Daum caught up Naver slowly and maintained 20% share from August, 2008. On ...
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:Daum, Naver, Search
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Naver Integrated Search
by Channy Yun on Jul.24, 2007, under Uncategorized
Even though Google, web search giant conquers all search world, there is exceptional country. In Korea, Naver became David against Goliath. What's different Naver from Google and How's different Korea from others?
Naver explained their unique characteristics of its search engine and service evolved by Korean user's requirement over time. It's different style with Google and foreign search engine.
They called it as 'Multiple or Integrated Search' that shows results by information collections such as own-made databases and web documents together whereas global search engines are based on only web documents.
Of course, other search engine have tried how to give ...
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:Naver, Search
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