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Naver's webmaster guide mentions AI in 4 of its 55 pages
We downloaded all 55 pages of Naver Search Advisor's webmaster guide (142,590 characters) and counted AI-related words. "AI" appears 6 times on 4 pages; "briefing" and "generative" never appear. The only AI-related control is the nosourceinfo meta tag.
Naver is Korea's largest search portal, and Search Advisor is its webmaster tool, the Korean counterpart to Google Search Console. Its guide is where site owners look first for how to appear in Naver's AI Briefing answers.
We downloaded every page of that guide, 55 pages and 142,590 characters, and counted where AI-related words appear.
Finding 01
The pages that mention AI cover spam, writing, a meta tag and a report
One tick per guide page in table-of-contents order; height is the page's character count.
| Guide page · updated | Korean original | Our translation |
|---|---|---|
| Web content spam cases (웹 콘텐츠 스팸사례) · 2026-07-03 | 이 과정에서 AI나 자동화 프로그램을 활용하는 경우도 포함될 수 있으나, 특정 기술의 활용 여부만으로는 판단하지 않습니다. | This may include cases where AI or automation programs are used, but the use of a specific technology alone is not what the judgment is based on. |
| Recommendations for writing content (콘텐츠 작성시 권장 사항) · 2026-07-03 | AI 도구를 활용하는 경우, 단순 생성·요약에 그치지 말고 운영자의 경험과 관점을 더해 고유한 콘텐츠로 완성해 주세요. | If you use AI tools, don't stop at simple generation or summarization; add the operator's experience and perspective to finish it as original content. |
| Preferred URL and robots meta tags (선호 URL 및 로봇 메타 태그) · 2025-12-11 | 명령어에 nosourceinfo를 사용하는 경우, 해당 사이트에 대해 AI로 자동 생성된 출처설명이 제공되지 않습니다. | If you use nosourceinfo in the directive, the AI-generated source description for that site is not provided. |
| Site optimization (사이트 최적화) · 2020-10-30 | 사이트 최적화내의 등급은 웹마스터도구에 등록된 사이트에 한하여 수집된 정보를 토대로 AI 기반의 평가 알고리즘을 토대로 순위를 매기고 있습니다. | Grades in Site Optimization are ranked by an AI-based evaluation algorithm, using information collected only from sites registered in Webmaster Tools. |
Finding 02
"Briefing" and "generative" do not appear anywhere in the guide
Occurrences across the same 55 pages. The control words show that the counter worked.
Finding 03
The only AI-related control in the guide is nosourceinfo
명령어에 nosourceinfo를 사용하는 경우, 해당 사이트에 대해 AI로 자동 생성된 출처설명이 제공되지 않습니다.
So where should a foreign site start on Naver?
- Register the site in Search Advisor and check crawling and indexing first; that is what the guide covers.
- Look for AI Briefing rules in Naver's official search blog and notices rather than in the guide.
- When AI helps write Korean content, add the operator's own experience and perspective, as the guide asks.
Methodology
- NAVER 「네이버 서치어드바이저 웹마스터 가이드」 · 최종 확인일 2026-09-13 · https://searchadvisor.naver.com/guide
- The guide is rendered by script, so the page HTML has no body text. We fetched page bodies from the public URL the table of contents uses.
- "AI" was counted only as an uppercase token not adjacent to other Latin letters. Text inside images is not counted.
- Translations of the Korean sentences are ours.