The reason for the raid was a claim from NHNCorp and Daum Communications Corp, two Korean companies involved with search engines in that country, that Google is engaged in anticompetitive practices with their Android operating system.
The two companies alleging anti-competitive behavior are NHNCorp.operator of Naver, South Korea's most popular search engine, and Daum Communications Corp. NHN alleges that Google "delayed certifying the use of its software for handset makers...
NHNCorp.eBay Yahoo served 8.5 billion searches globally, Chinese-language search engine Baidu.com served 3.3 billion, and Korea-based NHN served two billion searches. Of the 61 billion searches conducted worldwide, 37.1 billion were from Google.
NHN: The Little Search Engine That Could, from BusinessWeek offers a profile of NHNCorp/Naver.com a company that the article says is beating Google by one metric. While the Silicon Valley sensation doubtless had a great year in 2005, shares of a...
The search results provide the users links to the Web sites where the information can be found, benefiting both Internet users and Web companies," said Empas chief executive Park Seok-bong.Korean Internet companies, including NHN [the provider of...
According to Asia Pulse, NHN will no longer offer its search services in Japan because the company, "has been unable to dent Yahoo Japan Corp.s dominance in the country. The Korean Herald reports in NHN joins desktop search competition that NHN...