Daum (Internet portal)

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Daum

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founding 1995
Seat Seoul , South Korea
Website www.daum.net

Daum is a South Korean company that operates the search engine of the same name .

It was founded in 1995 and is the second largest search engine in the country with a share of 19.9% ​​of all search queries from South Korea after Naver . At the beginning of 2000, Daum started a Korean version of the search service from Germany in cooperation with the German search engine Fireball , which was discontinued after about a year. In 2014 Daum merged with KakaoTalk . The joint parent company initially operated under the name Daum Kakako , but since 2015 it has only appeared as cocoa .

Search engine market in South Korea
Naver
  
76.69%
Daum
  
19.89%
Google
  
2.06%
zum.com
  
1.21%
Other
  
0.15%
Search engine market shares in South Korea in July 2014
according to Nielsen KoreanClick

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. History of the company on Daumcorp.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.daumcorp.com  
  2. SANG-HUN CHOE: South Koreans Connect Through Search Engine . New York Times . Retrieved January 20, 2013: "Daum.net, another South Korean search portal, comes in second with a 10.8 percent share, followed by Yahoo's Korean-language service with 4.4 percent."
  3. ^ 2 Korean Search Engines File a Complaint Against Google , New York Times
  4. https://www.golem.de/0001/5891.html
  5. ^ Kenji Schautzer: Naver still running the show . In: The Egg . August 22, 2014. Accessed February 23, 2015.