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Google Korea Raided By Korean Fair Trade Commission
Korean trustbusters raid Google offices from CNet News reports the Korean Fair Trade Commission raided Google’s Seoul, South Korea offices yesterday. The raid was reportedly part of an investigation around Android. The Korean Fair Trade Commission was investigating if the Android platform unfairly made it hard for rival search engines to be found and used […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 30, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Hot At Sphinn: Measuring Social Influence, Matt Cutts’ Live Chat & More Social media measurement was the hot topic last week on our sister site, Sphinn. A discussion about measuring social […]
Police Raid Google’s Korean Office Over Location Data
Police apparently raided Google’s Korean offices in Seoul “on suspicion its mobile advertising unit AdMob had illegally collected location data without consent,” according to a Bloomberg report. This is the most extreme action taken by any government in the growing controversy over smartphone location data — essentially criminalizing data collection. In the US Apple and […]
Antitrust Trouble For Android In South Korea
NHN Corp. and Daum Communications have filed antitrust complaints with the South Korean equivalent of the US Fair Trade Commission. The complaints assert that Google is blocking them from putting their search applications on Android phones in South Korea. Leading Engines Claim They’re Blocked NHN and Daum run the two largest web portals in the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 16, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Q&A: comScore’s New “Core Search” & “Explicit Core Search” Figures Today, comScore is releasing an additional set of search market share metrics designed to better reflect “core” search activity, something that’s […]
Lycos Sold For $36 Million
Lycos, that old search engine, was reportedly sold for $36 million. Ybrant Digital, an Indian-based digital marketing solutions company, bought Lycos from Korean-based Daum. Daum purchased Lycos back in 2004 for $95.4 million—and that was a mere fraction of the of the $12.5 billion Spanish telecom company Terra paid for Lycos at the peak of […]
Naver, The Google Of South Korea
Crowd’s wisdom helps South Korean search engine beat Google and Yahoo from the New York Times describes South Korea’s most popular search engine, Naver. Naver currently has a 77 percent share of all searches from within South Korea. Daum.net follows with 10.8 percent, Yahoo with just 4.4 percent and Google with a tiny 1.7 percent […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 28, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google & Korea Daum In Content & Ad Partnership Talks
Google, Korea Daum in talks on YouTube, ad deals from MarketWatch reports that Google is in partnership discussions with Daum. Eric Schmidt of Google and Seok Jong-Hun of Daum are planning on meeting tomorrow to discuss Google providing Daum will access to all of YouTube’s content on their portal. And Daum to allow Google to […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 15, 2006
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Korea’s Top Portal, Naver, Renews With Yahoo
Yahoo has renewed their partnership with Naver, Korea’s largest portal. Yahoo will continue to be, in a multi-year contract, the exclusive provider of sponsored search listings for search queries on the Naver portal and through Naver’s toolbar application. This news comes days after Daum dropped Yahoo for Google, Daum is Korea’s second largest portal. Below […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 13, 2006
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
South Korea’s Portal, Daum, To Run Google AdSense
Forbes reports that Daum, South Korea’s second largest portal, is going to be going with Google when their contract expires with Yahoo (Overture) in January. Google’s vice president of Asia Pacific and Latin America operations, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, said “Daum is Google’s longest-standing partner in Korea, and we are pleased to build on our alliance […]