Nate (web portal)

Nate (Korean: 네이트) is a South Korean web portal developed by SK Communications. In 2003, Nate acquired social media site Cyworld and in 2004, it achieved first place in local page views with a total of 3.8 million, surpassing rival Daum for the first time.^[1]

Nate

Type of site	Web portal, search engine
Available in	Korean
Owner	SK Communications
URL	www.nate.com
Commercial	Yes

Nate
Hangul	네이트
Revised Romanization	Neiteu
McCune–Reischauer	Neit'ŭ

NateOn

NateOn is an instant messaging client provided by Nate, which in 2005 first overtook MSN Messenger in terms of South Korean user numbers. During the 3rd week of May 2005, NateOn's South Korean users totalled 7.54 million, compared to 6.5 million for MSN Messenger.^[2]

See also

• Search engine
• Comparison of web search engines
• Timeline of web search engines

Notes