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"South Korean Internet portal Naver (http://naver.com http://naver.com), illustrates the potential of Q&A sites. As of July, 2007, Naver handled 77% of internet
by charlesju 14y ago
"South Korean Internet portal Naver (http://naver.com http://naver.com),
illustrates the potential of Q&A sites. As of July, 2007,
Naver handled 77% of internet searches originating inSouth Korea, dwarfing worldwide leaders Yahoo! (4.4%)
and Google (1.7%) [19]. One of the reasons for this
disparity is the relatively small Korean language corpus
available for crawling. To address this shortcoming, Naver
built a Q&A site called Knowledge iN that encourages
users to type questions for others to answer, rather than
relying on search results [2]. Since their 2002 launch of
Knowledge iN, Naver has accumulated 70 million questions
and answers, and continues to receive over 40,000
questions and 110,000 answers per day [19]."
The source: http://bit.ly/12EHYUp http://bit.ly/12EHYUp
- VonGuard 14y agoOK, but again, it's the only source of this info in South Korea. Here, we have a very robust Wikipedia, endless health sites (for those "How I get pregnant?!" Yahoo! Answers style questions, and an infinite array of other very chatty, very dedicated sites. I just feel like this ship has sailed. Quora reminds me of Everything2. Remember that site? It's still around, but does anyone really use it much anymore? It's another attempt to put all the info in one big pile. I just don't see that type of effort working anymore outside of a Wikipedia setting. Also, you know what else is huge in South Korea? Starcraft. But that hasn't helped Activision's stock too much in the States since the merger with Blizzard. South Korea also has insane bandwidth to yer home. I'd much rather investors emulated THAT success than some nebulous info site's.