Naver Japan back in business?

[bill]

Back at the end of 2005 we learned that Naver Japan was going to stop service [webmasterworld.com] then shortly after that Naver announced its return to the Japan search market [webmasterworld.com]. Well, a couple of years on and it looks like they may be serious. The Naver Japan site [naver.jp] has a recruitment ad that says they're looking for staff locally.

[Conferencecall]

What is Naver Japan?

[phranque]

welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com], Conferencecall!

maybe you could naver "naver".
or google "naver" [google.com] if you prefer.
=8)

or any of the above links holds some clues...

[bill]

Well, they're still talking about it...

NHN Braces for Japan's Search Market [koreatimes.co.kr]

Although NHN declined to comment on the specific features of its sequel search engine, company officials say the focus is to customize services to the habits of Japanese online users, representing a different approach from NHN’s first try, when company officials claimed the "social and cultural" similarities between the countries would allow Naver to excel in Japan with an identical business model to that used in Korea.

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Although NHN officials say that Naver’s Japanese site will have its own identity and not merely be a translated extension of its Korean site, it’s questionable whether there will be enough differentiation.

The secret to NHN’s success in Korea is simply explained by "Knowledge-In," which allowed users to question and edit search results, and "Integrated Search," which sectionalizes search results by type of content and source, such as Web, news, images, blogs and videos.

However, as Yahoo! Answers and Google’s Universal Search can attest, those features have become conventional.