Naver (Hangul: ???) is the number one search engine in South Korea, and is operated Naver Corporation. Naver was launched in June 1999 and debuted as the first web portal in Korea that uses its own proprietary search engine. One of Naver's most notable features is the 'comprehensive search' feature, released in 2000, which provides results from multiple categories on a single page. Naver has since added new services to its main website such as the Q&A platform Knowledge iN, which was launched in 2002. Naver also provides other services including news, e-mail, and academic thesis search. In 2005, Naver launched Happy Bean, the world's first online donation portal.
As of September 2017, the search engine handled 74.7% of all web searches in South Korea and had 42 million enrolled users. In addition, more than 25 million Koreans have Naver as the start page on their default browsers.
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History
The search engine Naver was created in June 1999 as the first South Korean portal website with a self-developed search engine. In August 2000, Naver began the 'comprehensive search' service, which allows users to get a variety of results from a search query on a single page, organized by type, including blogs, websites, images, cafes, etc. This was five years before Google launched a similar offering with its 'universal search' function.
In the early days of Naver's operation, there was a relative dearth of webpages available in the Korean language. To fill this void, Naver became an early pioneer in user-generated content through the creation of the 'Knowledge iN (Hangul: ???)' service in 2002. In Knowledge iN, users pose questions on any subject, and select among answers provided by other users, awarding points to the users who provide the best answers. Knowledge iN was launched three years before Yahoo! launched its similar 'Yahoo! Answers' service, and now possesses a database of over 200 million answers.
Over the years, Naver has continued to expand its offerings, including its webtoon service in 2004, blog service in 2005, and local information services and book search services in 2004. From 2005 to 2007, Naver expanded its multimedia search services, including music and video search, Internet phone service and mobile search. On 1 January 2009, Naver released a new interface.
In April 2013, Naver launched Newsstand to pursue fairness and transparency: every new publisher is able to edit news articles that appear on Naver.
Maps Naver (search engine)
Junior Naver (Hangul:??? ???), also known as Juniver (Hangul:???), is a portal website for children. It is considered similar to Yahooligans. Junior Naver offers special services such as Pany Pang, avatars, educational links, quizzes, stories, jokes, and a homework helper. Several services such as Flash Theater and Animal farm (Dongmul Nongjang) have closed down. Junior Naver utilizes a panel of experts and educators to filter out harmful content, with the aim of offering a safe Internet experience for children. Junior Naver also has its own Q&A service for children. Ever since its competitor Daum Kids has closed down in 2015, Junior Naver is the only children's portal site operating in Korea. Yahoo's childrens' portal site ?? ??? also stopped its operation in 2012 because of the evacuation of Yahoo Korea.
Naver Webtoon (Hangul:??? ??, also called "webtoon" ??) is a web-comic platform. Users have free access to a variety of webtoons created by professional artists. They can also pay publishers to view comic books and genre fiction contents online. Naver also has a 'Challenge' service which allows amateurs to post and promote their own works.
Naver Cafe (Hangul: ??? ??) is a service that allows Naver users to create their own internet communities. There were 10.5 million cafes running as of May 2017.
Naver Blog (Hangul: ??? ???) started with the name 'paper' in June 2003, and evolved to 'blog' in October 2003. It had 23 million users as of April 2016.
Naver TV Cast is a web broadcast network which mainly provides web dramas distributed by Naver.
Knowledge IN
Knowledge iN (Korean:???), formerly Knowledge Search (Korean:????), is an online Q&A platform launched in October 2002. The tool allows users to ask any question and receive answers from other users. In this way, Knowledge iN was an early example of harnessing user-generated content to expand the amount of information available on the web, particularly in the Korean language. Bradley Horowitz, Vice President of Product Strategy at Yahoo!, has cited the South Korean experience with knowledge search as the inspiration for Yahoo! Answers, which was launched three years after Naver introduced the original service.
Knowledge IN has four categories:
- Knowledge Q&A - allows for general questions about anything, and has a lot of sub-categories in itself.
- Education, Academy
- Computer communication
- Games
- Entertainment, Art
- Life (Everyday life)
- Health
- Society, Politics
- Economy
- Travel
- Sports, Leisure
- Shopping
- Local Q&A - allows people to ask for local information such as good restaurants, cheap stores, and real estate.
- Agony Q&A - for people seeking advice on relationships, love, career, and sex (with anonymous posting enabled). While Knowledge Q&A and Local Q&A provide factual answers, Agony Q&A usually returns more opinionated responses.
- Juniver Q&A - has questions for children.
- People - shows people who answer a lot of questions in certain subjects.
- Best questions - shows questions that people can have a lot of interest in.
- Open Dictionary - is a database of informative articles generated by users. Users can create an article alone, or enable other users to collaborate to create a thread of articles on the same subject. In addition, the user may add his or her own answers from Knowledge Q&A to Open Dictionary.
Naver Dictionary supports 34 categories, including English, Korean, Chinese, Chinese characters, Japanese, Global Communication, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Indonesian, Thai, Arabic, Cambodian, Tamil, Mongolian, Hindi, Persian, Nepali, Swahili, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Turkish, Georgian, Albanian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Dutch, Swedish, Hungarian, Polish, Czech as of May 2017. Handwriting recognition is supported in Japanese, Chinese, and Chinese characters. In 2016, Naver decided to invest 10 billion won for the development of language dictionaries.
Naver Encyclopedia mainly uses the database of Doosan encyclopedia, but it is a collection of many different encyclopedias, so there are many duplicate contents.
See also
- Naver Corporation
References
External links
Media related to Naver (search engine) at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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