LISTED WITH THE SEARCH ENGINES · REPUBLIC OF KOREA

What is Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview)?

Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview) is run by Kakao Corp. The pages read do not describe it as a web search engine. No page read for this research says where its results come from. The research records one rich result type for it (active); its pages document support for Open Graph.

Last checked November 10, 2026 · 5 sources, 1 of them could not be fetched

Type
Listed with the search engines; not a web search engine in the pages read
Run by
Kakao Corp.
Results come from
Not stated
Recorded markets
Republic of Korea
Where its share is highest
StatCounter does not track Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview).
Share, worldwide
StatCounter does not track Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview).
Structured data formats
Documented: Open Graph
Rich result types
1 active of 1 on record

Who runs it

Run by Kakao Corp.

developers.kakao.com

Where does Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview) get its results?

Not a web search engine in the pages read. Kakao Developers documents a Daum search REST API covering web documents, video, image, blog, book and cafe search[4], so Kakao's developer platform exposes Daum search; the pages do not say who runs that index. Kept as its own entry because Kakao documents its own link preview scraper and tool.

Engines that use results from Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview)

The research records no engine that takes its general results from Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview) or is built on it by the same company.

Which countries use Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview)?

StatCounter does not track Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview). None of the labels in its search engine figures for October 2026 maps to Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview) in this research. StatCounter Global Stats

Recorded markets

The research records Republic of Korea as the main market for Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview).

Does Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview) use structured data?

The research records documented support for Open Graph for Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview). It records 1 rich result type, listed in the next section.

Structured data formats for Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview)
FormatDocumented supportWhat the research records
JSON-LDNot documentedNot named in the scraper post or the tools page. Only link previews are documented.[1]
MicrodataNot documentedNot named in the scraper post or the tools page.[1]
RDFaNot documentedNo note
Open GraphYesThe scraper behind KakaoTalk link previews reads Open Graph tags, the title tag, the description tag and, when the Open Graph image is absent, a representative img tag (the post writes og:img for that property). No order of precedence between Open Graph tags and the other tags is stated. Kakao's tools page names og:title, og:description and og:image[2].[1]
MicroformatsNot documentedNo note
Twitter CardsNot documentedThe scraper post does not name twitter: tags as a fallback.[1]

“Not documented” means the pages read do not say; it does not mean the format is ignored.

Which rich results can Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview) show?

The research records 1 rich result type for Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview): 1 active. Each entry shows the schema.org types it is documented for, where the research records them. Valid markup can make a page eligible; it does not guarantee the result.

Active 1

  • Scrap(스크랩, 미리보기) Active

    Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

    Where: not stated

    Formats: Open Graph

    Not a search result feature: the preview card KakaoTalk builds for a shared URL. The post lists what the scraper reads: Open Graph tags, the title tag, the description tag and a representative img tag when the Open Graph image is absent (written og:img in the post). No precedence between them is stated and nothing is labelled required or recommended. URL data is cached for at least one hour and images for several hours; the cache is cleared in Kakao's share debugger, which the post names without giving its URL. The sample HTTP user agent carries facebookexternalhit/1.1 ahead of kakaotalk-scrap/1.0. Two inbound IP ranges are published (211.231.103.0/24 and 27.0.238.0/24). Robots.txt handling is not stated. First posted 2017-06-20; an English section was added 2025-12-04.

    Documentation[1]

How does Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview) crawl the web?

The research lists 1 crawler token for Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview): the names a site uses in robots.txt rules, with what each one does where the source says.

kakaotalk-scrap[1]

How do I test my markup for Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview)?

Testing tools the research records for Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview):

Inject the World

Test a page for Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview)

See what the research records for Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview) against the structured data on your page (market: Republic of Korea).

Test a page

Site ownersThe research records no guidelines or vocabularies of its own for Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview).

What could not be verified?

These claims about Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview) came up in the research, but no page that could be read confirms them. They are kept apart, and nothing above rests on them.

  • What the URL meta information tool reports beyond og:title, og:description and og:image.

    Why it is open: The tool itself was never opened.

    How it was checked

    https://developers.kakao.com/tool/debugger/sharing[5] redirects to a Kakao login page; the login was not followed. The tools overview[2] was read instead; it does not say whether a login is needed.

  • The kakaotalk-scrap scraper obeys robots.txt.

    Why it is open: Neither page mentions robots.txt. The post gives inbound IP ranges and the overview a firewall note instead.

    How it was checked

    The scraper post[1] was read three times and the KakaoTalk share overview[3] once.

  • Kakao runs a search surface or index of its own apart from Daum search.

    Why it is open: Outside what was read. This entry describes a link preview consumer, not a search engine, and can be dropped from a search engine matrix.

    How it was checked

    Only the four Kakao developer pages in sources were read[1-4]. No search was run for Kakao search products.

Sources

The pages the research used for Kakao (KakaoTalk link preview), numbered as cited above. Accessed November 10, 2026 unless shown.

  1. 1.Scrap(스크랩, 미리보기)란? · Kakao Corp. (Kakao Developers forum, posted by the kakao account) · in Korean · updated December 4, 2025
  2. 2.도구 > 소개 - 카카오디벨로퍼스 | 문서 · Kakao Corp. · in Korean
  3. 3.카카오톡 공유 > 이해하기 - 카카오디벨로퍼스 | 문서 · Kakao Corp. · in Korean
  4. 4.Daum 검색 > REST API - 카카오디벨로퍼스 | 문서 · Kakao Corp. · in Korean
  5. 5.developers.kakao.com/tool/debugger/sharing (not read: the URL redirects to a Kakao login page, which was not followed) · Kakao Corp. · in KoreanCould not be fetched

Market share figures: StatCounter Global Stats, search engine market share, October 2026, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.