Naver (web portal)

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**Naver**
URL	NAVER.COM
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Web portal
Registration	Optional
Owner	NHN Corp.
Created by	NHN Corp.
Launched	June 1999

Naver (Hangul:네이버) is the # 1 web portal in South Korea. Naver was launched in June 1999. Using its own proprietary search engine, Naver was the first portal to provide search service in Korea including integrated searches. It has since remained in the lead in the development of Korean search service. It also provides a wide range of Internet services including a news service with comprehensive coverage from more than 90 media sources, an e-mail service, and an academic thesis search service.

1 History
2 Junior Naver
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

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1999. 06 Started Naver service
2000. 02 Received the Digital Grand Prize of the 1st Information and Communications Company Awards by the Hankyoreh Shinmun Daily
2000. 02 Cited as the Best Small and Medium-Sized Company in Internet Communications (from the Administrator of the Small and Medium Business Administration)
2000. 05 Ranked as the best search engine in Korea by the Korea Management Association Consultants
2000. 12 Received the Grand Prize in the best portal category of the Chosun Ilbo Internet Awards from the Chosun Ilbo Daily
2001. 01 Navercom certified as having received over 100 million page hits by the Korea Audit Bureau of Circulations
2001. 03 Selected as one of the e-Korea’s Ten Largest IT Companies in the Internet category by the Korea Economic Daily
2001. 05 Launched Naver E-Commerce Business
2002. 03 Received the Grand Prize in the portal and Internet categories of the 2nd HanKyung Web Awards by the Korea Economic Daily
2002. 05 Ranked first with the largest number of homepages opened at a website in Korea by the Korea Management Association Consultants
2002. 10 Started ‘Knowledge iN’, Naver’s C2C search service
2003. 01 Started multilingual translation search service, the first such service in the world 2003. 05 Launched Naver ‘Mileage Mail’ service
2003. 08 Ranked as No.1 in search service, and selected as No.1 by all institutions concerned
2003. 08 Chosen as No.1 among Internet portals by the Korea Service Quality Index (Korean Standards Association)
2003. 10 Launched ‘Knowledge Shopping’ service
2003. 10 Launched Blog service
2003. 12 Launched Cafe service ‘Cafe iN’
2004. 01 Naver’s ‘Knowledge iN’ Knowledge database recorded 10 million queries and answers
2004. 04 Launched ‘Knowledge Market’, and expert knowledge marketplace
2004. 05 Launched Local Information search service
2004. 07 Launched Text search service for Books
2004. 09 Launched Integrated Book service
2005. 01 Opened Naver’s music search service
2005. 04 Launched the ‘New Knowledge iN’ Campaign
2005. 04 Started ‘Direct Search Service’
2005. 05 Started to provide ‘Real-time Search Rankings’ for the first in the industry
2005. 07 Ranked first in weekly and monthly UV in the portal sector of all surveys
2005. 10 Started a beta service for the internet telephony ‘Naver phone’
2005. 10 Introduced Korea’s first desktop Search Service ‘My PC Search’

[edit] Junior Naver

Main article: Junior Naver

Junior Naver is a portal site created exclusively for children. It has special services such as game links, avatar, educational links, quizzes, story teller, humor, and homework helper. It is simular to naver except that it is tuned and illustrated for children.