AltaVista Expands Search Services to Korea

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- AltaVista Company, the leading search and information marketplace for consumers and businesses, and a majority-owned company of CMGI, Inc (Nasdaq: CMGI - news), today launched AltaVista Korea at www.kr.altavista.com. The new site offers Korean Internet users one of the largest indices of Korean Web sites available today, as well as access to AltaVista's world famous Web search services.

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Interesting....the spider that visits your site after submitting to KR AV has no user agent name.

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Nice article with some very interesting snippets:

Over half of AV.com's users are from outside of North America.

Page views at AV's international sites have grown 500 percent over the past year.

AV.com receives traffic more from Korea than any other country in Asia.