Naver joins desktop search competition

These guys are on the ball....

[GrendelKhan TSU]

I'm sure this is posted somewhere alrady but...
I'm tootin the Korean search engine horn again.....
these guys got the market here cornered, but doesn't mean they are going to get lazy.....

haven't tried it out yet,, but i can just about guarantee its pyscho-super feature rich. I'll let you know.

[koreaherald.co.kr...]

[bill]

Are any of the tools from Google, Yahoo or Microsoft localized for the Korean market yet? Is this the first local effort?

[Woz]

I have heard that the yahoo effort doesn't handle Chinese very well. Grendel, is this one targeted specifically at the Korean Market or for more genberal use?

Onya
Woz

[larryhatch]

Kopean! Somehow I got it in my head that Naverbot was Japanese. Oh well.

They visit regularly, spidering a handful of files just about every day.
Very well behaved, but I haven't seen any incoming traffic other than the short crawls - Larry

[bill]

There is a Japanese arm to Naver
[naver.co.jp...]
but it's only an arm of the Korean portal
[naver.com...]
Naverbot can come from different IPs. My Japanese sites would usually get the Japanese bot of the same name, but most reports on the net seem to come from the naver.com bot.

Regardless, I'm interested to see how this Korean desktop search pans out.

[GrendelKhan TSU]

Are any of the tools from Google, Yahoo or Microsoft localized for the Korean market yet? Is this the first local effort?

yahoo and google both haave one, but I've never used em actually. (msn probably does too). Don't think they are very popular in any case. really don't know. the rankey one was pretty popular at one point.

didn't think it was THAT big a deal but here are more articles:
[timesofoman.com...]
[mg.co.za...]

taking a more "kill the foreign competitors" slant. +_+
but anyway.....

I have heard that the yahoo effort doesn't handle Chinese very well. Grendel, is this one targeted specifically at the Korean Market or for more genberal use?

targeted for korea.

I tried installing it but ran into problems and didnt bother to figure out what the problem is yet.

I'll try again later. ;)

[bill]

Thanks for the update. I guess the question now is how does this local initiative compare to the Yahoo and Google offerings? I've tried out some of the desktop search and found them to be quite sticky apps. I use them more than I thought I would.

Are there any other local Korean desktop search efforts?

[GrendelKhan TSU]

yahoo and google both haave one, but I've never used em actually. (msn probably does too). Don't think they are very popular in any case. really don't know. the rankey one was pretty popular at one point.

omg I totally brainfarted when I posted that.... NO. they don't have one as far as I know. (I was thinking browser toolbar like somekinda of search NOOB -- lol. DOH! SMACK! sheesh, if I'm makin mistakes like that...I really need to some sleep. +_+;;; lol))

anyway.... I think Naver is the first portal here for a comprehensive KOREAN Desktop search tool. Big G's will work of course...but its not a "korean version".

eitherway...the locals portals (namely, NHN and Daum) continue to know how to keep a hold on this market. (I'm still trying to get my head around Daum's new "Woggle" search. o_O)...

I'll look around..I really haven't been paying attention to this part of the market out here too much.