> I had to do something special for www.naver.com, Korea's biggest portal. Because the string > "www.naver.com" appeared multiple times in the same function, we put that into a string > constant at the beginning: something like > static const string kNaverUrl = "www.naver.com"; > Because having "magic constant" sprinkled in the code is bad!

You have changed your magic string into a magic constant. It's a step towards better code, but the next step is to give the thing a proper name. In this case, something like DoSomethingSpecialUrl. Now you have a bit of self-documenting code.