With the assistance of locals, Google has updated its Maps service to fill in many of the blanks of North Korea's most remote locations, providing a more detailed picture of the country. While many people around the globe are fascinated with North...
North Korea For the 12th straight year, Yahoo has announced their annual year in review. Since 2001, Yahoo has compiled lists of the top search queries entered into the search box in an attempt to determine the year's top stories, fads, and...
When we look at North Asia, zooming in on Japan and Korea, I believe SEO in 2012 will be focused on three core trends and developments: And in Korea it’s grown by 10 percent. In Korea, we see that Café’s (Naver’s blog platform) that have more...
Naver commands more than 70 percent market share in South Korea, making it the fifth most used search engine in the world, following Google, Yahoo, Baidu, and Bing. North Asia may be one region where Google doesn’t always dominate due to other...
A quick way to understand search in South Korea is to first examine what its top search engines Naver and Daum look like. Naver is Korea’s biggest search site and a typical homepage is filled with news, information, and online shopping.
Each of the thumbnails links directly to the movie and these movies tend to be from North Asia such as Hong Kong, Korea, and Mainland China. Social networking may get all the rave but latest stats from comScore reveal Chinese Internet users...
A group of 12 "mid-ranking" officials from North Korea secretly visited Google's Mountain View headquarters Friday morning. North Korean Officials Tour Google HQ by Danny Goodwin Technical SEO: Tools and Approach by Adam Audette
A group of 12 "mid-ranking" officials from North Korea secretly visited Google's Mountain View headquarters Friday morning. Though it's unlikely that North Korea will open up to the outside world immediately, it could help shift the mindset of the...
What makes South Korea so special is that the "international players" only have around 7 percent of the total search market, while Naver has 62 percent; Daum 21 percent; and Nate 10 percent. Globally, countries like China (Baidu), Russia (Yandex...
Nigeria's 44 million users is more than South Korea, Mexico, or Canada -- and it's less than one-third of the population of Nigeria.x Internet Users in Asia So forget the statistic that in the future there will be four Chinese users for every...
Before the iPhone and Google's Droid based phones were released in Korea, it looked like nobody could beat NAVER's market share. The 2010 Online consuming trend insights tell the whole story (the research was conducted by the two biggest e-commerce...
Mobile search has become a mainstream behavior in Asia with China, Thailand, India, and South Korea leading the region, according to a recent report by search marketing firm iProspect. The study aimed to ascertain search behavior in 11 markets...
Real doubts within the Chinese leadership about the future of North Korea as a separate entity from South Korea. But, most of it is confusing, so I thought a game card would be handy. So who are the players in this interesting global intrigue?
North Korea in the World Cup. Can you believe we've reached the final day of SES? That's nuts! But here we are on Day 3. It's my last day guest blogging for Search Engine Watch and I would kill for a good hand masseuse right about now.
Search success in Korea means you can let your campaigns run for a longer time then anywhere else in the world. When money is tight here in North America, people look for online deals, especially around the holidays.
If it weren't for Yahoo's relative dominance in Japan and North Korea, and the U.S.s seeming "give the little guy a chance" percentages, it certainly would be a "Google world," from a search engine market share perspective.
While the NYT has not concluded who is responsible beyond they "appear to have been launched by a hostile group or government", "the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that the spy agency had implicated North Korea or pro-North Korea groups...
North Korea Using Cyberattacks Against US, South Korea Posted by Frank Watson Jul 9, 2009 Since last weekend some government websites in the US and South Korea have been cyberattacked, the New York Times reported.
China, Canada, Mexico, South Korea, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, and France. For example, China's Baidu and South Korea's Naver.com are threats to the search world giants, Yahoo and Google. Yahoo is playing second fiddle in many countries...
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. North America The 750 million searchers account for 95 percent of the worldwide Internet...
