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Google's Schmidt: Just Getting Started In South Korea

Google’s CEO Eric Schinidt has visited Korea this week to attend the Seoul Digital Forum 2007. “It’s obvious to me that Korea is a great laboratory of the digital age,” Schmidt said in a speech at the Seoul Digital Forum. On Tuesday, Schmidt met with Daum Communications Corp., South Korea’s

Korea's Daum and Google agree to Web Search Ad deal

Daum Communications, Korea’s 2nd largest Internet company has confirmed in 26th January 2007 that it has teamed up with Google in keyword ads and has been already paid for 222,8 Million USD from Google for 3 years gurantee. According to Daum, Daum will start using Google’s AdSense and will be

Google Failed to Conquer S. Korea

Google has been successful in many areas of life all over the world but its search engine has failed to conquer South Korea – one of the world’s most wired countries. Google referred only 17% of unique visitors to other sites in the month of March. KoreanClick also reported that

Korean site drags Google into david-goliath match

“Don’t be evil? Don’t trust Google!” Google was accused by a Korean community site(www.humoruniv.com) of not paying the Korean site for having Google’s AdSense on its Web site for two months. The site was supposed to receive a check of around 20 million won, but only received an e-mail from

Ask Yahoo!

Yahoo has just announced Yahoo! Answers (Beta). “Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people.” In the beginning there was Ask Jeeves. And then Google Answers.. The difference between Google Answers is, at Google your questions are first answered by google researchers and you need to

Naver is number one search engine in Korea with 68% share

Korea came 13th in an annual survey of brand value of countries, the Institute for Industrial Policy Studies said yesterday. The government-affiliated think tank also said Samsung retained the number1 position in brand value among Korean companies. For internet portals, Naver had the highest brand value. Naver is Korea’s No.