Nostimates

Naver citations tracking

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Naver works logged-out, which makes it the cheapest Asian surface to collect. Its answer surfaces cite blog, cafe and knowledge-in content alongside ordinary web sources, and Nostimates tags which corpus each citation came from.

How it renders

Blog, cafe and knowledge-base references shown alongside web sources.

Sampling

Citation sets are the least stable field we return. The same prompt run n times will produce overlapping but non-identical URL sets, which is why we report frequency across samples rather than a list from one run.

Gotcha

Off-Naver content is systematically underrepresented. A brand can dominate Korean organic web results and still be near-invisible in Naver's answer surfaces if it has no presence inside Naver's own properties.

What the API returns

A single collection call against Naver for the citations field, sampled n times and returned as one object per prompt.

{
  "engine": "naver",
  "field": "citations",
  "prompt": "best ai visibility tracking tool",
  "country": "GB",
  "language": "en",
  "n": 30,
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://nostimates.com/engines",
      "domain": "nostimates.com",
      "position": 1,
      "sample_frequency": 0.63
    },
    {
      "url": "https://example.org/guide",
      "domain": "example.org",
      "position": 3,
      "sample_frequency": 0.4
    }
  ]
}
GET /v1/collect?engine=naver&field=citations

Response fields

KeyTypeNotes
urlstringAbsolute URL as the engine rendered it, redirects resolved.
domainstringRegistrable domain, normalised for grouping.
positionintegerOrder within the citation set for that sample.
sample_frequencyfloatShare of the n samples in which this URL appeared.
anchor_textstring | nullVisible anchor or chip label, when the engine renders one.
first_seendateFirst run in which this URL appeared for this prompt.

What it costs

1 credit per prompt per sample. Citations are included in the base collection — no surcharge.

See credit pricing →

Naver citations FAQ

Why is my Korean site not cited?
Naver prefers its own blog, cafe and knowledge-in corpora. Off-Naver content competes at a structural disadvantage.
Is Naver cheap to collect?
The cheapest Asian surface we run — it needs no account.

Start your Asian coverage where it is cheapest

Naver is the easiest proof point for expanding beyond the Western engines. Send your Korean prompts and we will quote it.

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Across every engine

Compare how citations behaves on every engine we track.

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