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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 ...

Some of Korean bloggers reported screenshots of search result bucket test Google Korea. Especially it is very similiar with search results of local competitors such as Naver and Daum. It was more interesting because Google was changed new front-page layout for Korean different with other languages. Recently Google unveiled new search results user interface called Universal Search that unify and blend search results across their collection such as web search, news, blogs, images and videos, etc. It means Google divided details properties from mass index of web pages and it will be important to show proper collections by query. But, this ...

Allblog made a bombshell announcement to end stategic partnership with Naver. It has offered registered feed data to Naver search engine by a contract between Allblog and Naver. So many blogs registered in Allblog were showed in searh results in Naver. Most of them are independent blogs such as Tattertools, Wordpress and Egloos. Before offering of Allblog, Naver's blog search was limited to own blogs. But, Allblog often complained the low ranking rather than Naver's own blogs in search result. They thought it's result of artificial editing by Naver and often claimed these problems. But, Naver's reaction was not transparent and ...

The Daum and Naver were co-hosted the Korea Mashup Contest 2007 that find out good services mashed by Open APIs. For unfamiliar developers about Open APIs, there was Mashup camp in Yonsei Univ., Seoul on Feb 25th and KAIST in Daejeon. on Mar. 1th. Before the noon, API developers of Daum and Naver directly instructed over 70 participators about transaction of XML-RPC, REST and parsing of RSS, JSON and XML. After lunch, there are small five project to practice mash-up coding using Daum and Naver's APIs. Most of participators enjoyed talking and coding with API developers and made a good results ...

Naver's new blog service season2 was developed for ultimate freedom of customization, more specialty functions, easier channel to latest technologies. Presently, there are two main types of blogs available. A web-based hosted blogging service and an installed blog using tool such program like Tattertools and WordPress. When using the web provided blog service, users are limited only to features it provides. Naturally, active bloggers prefer for more ease of use and flexibility, apt to go with blogtool programs over using blog sites. As following is teaser advertisement for Naver Blog Season 2. You can say that Naver's season2 is a web-based blog service ...

Thinkfree made a strategic partnership with Naver on September 28th. 2006. As you know, Thinkfree is famous web office service providers against Microsoft Office in US. Its service has focused on Java-applet based web office to substitute MS Office, but it turns to offer Ajax-based lightweight functions in this year. So Thinkfree starts to have a strong competitive against Google Writely and Spreadsheet as well MS Office Live. A vulnerable point of Thinkfree don't have heavy users to use their officeware. But, Naver extends a helping hand to Thinkfree to make a partnership with HaanSoft, an owner of Thinkfree and ...

Yahoo! Answers released knowledge API today for developers to access Y!A database. The Yahoo's knowledge database has been growing in the world except korean market. Naver was first mover with typical mass in this market. Also it released Naver Knowledge API on July, 2006. But it's not public why it only offered to own knowledge sponsors. What's knowledge sponsors? The knowledge sponsor means bussiness partners to offer continually answers to questions from Naver. For example, if someone asks a general dental issue, one of dentists will give an answer to Naver and a business logo and URL link of answerer is ...

Naver Open API announced Korean Maps API. It's first thing to offer local map by service provider in Korea. (maybe in the world?) It resembles Google Maps API by Naver Maps API overview. You can catch an mouse event and add controls such as zoom in/out, save button and annotation etc. A source of map images was given by Sundo Soft, an exclusive ESRI's korean vendor. Naver customized it and included it to their open APIs. This map use not standard longitude/latitude but (korean own) Katel coordinate system. Maybe it will be hacked formula between global and katel coordinate. Anyway it helps ...