WF-5JL8GT
Korean Internet Portal Giant Naver Manipulated Shopping and Video Search Algorithms to Favor In-House Services
The Korean Fair Trade Commission (FTC) imposed a 26.7B KRW on Naver for manipulating shopping and video search algorithms, favoring its own online shopping business to boost its market share.
- Date it happened
- 2020-10-06
- Organisation involved
- Naver
- Product, system or model
- According to the Fair Trade Commission's announcement, Naver made changes in search algorithms to have products or services sold by those that are linked to its payment service Naver Pay have better e
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