Google is a world leading search engine but to the Korean search engines Daum and Naver (created by NHN), they view some of Googles actions as unfair. According to their complaints to the Fair Trades Commission, Google has been blocking off access to mobile search competition on Androids and also sets itself as the default search engine making it difficult to change.

“This limits opportunities for companies offering similar services to compete on a level playing field, restricts consumers’ choices and discourages the growth of the mobile internet market as telecoms operators and handset makers will not be encouraged to offer differentiated products and services,” stated NHN.

Google continued to insist that the Android was still an open platform and carriers could choose which services to use. Daum rebutted this statement by referring to Google’s search share. Google’s traditional desktop share was only two percent in Korea but it’s mobile share grew almost 10 times larger in 2010.

This would not surprise me because search engines like Google make their money through searches and the advertisements that come with them. Hopefully some fair regulations are put in place and actually followed to allow for some fair play.

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