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I'm also heavy RSS reader with over 200 feeds and it's hard to track many famous blogs. Strangely I found sometimes that good blogs were hidden with no influence and rare good qualified posting. So I added them and instead removed newspaper-like blogs that publish many articles per day to keep proper numbers RSS feeds following up. Recently how to find good feeds is very important to me. Now I'm studying in Ph.D course and one of my professors focused on this issue and made feed search engine so called Feedmil.com. I used this for a month in closed beta and ...

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 ...

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 ...