Whats with Google Korea
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IIRC Google rolled out a homepage like this with icons on The Big G back in end 2003. Seems good to me. =)
Quoted For the Mufucking Truth. I had more than your average number of Korean friends in high school, and I swear every major korean site they visited had all those cute little cartoon buttons and mascots. Japan is the same way, cute obsessed.
Google is WAAAAY behind in search marketshare in Korea. nate.com is the portal / search engine that most of the population uses and Google is having major issues getting mindshare. When I was in Korea, I would ask people why they were using nate.com and not Google and I would hear either "Nate.com is better", "Google doesn't work right" or "What's google?". That last one would blow my mind. South Korea adopted the internet and established protocol VERY quickly (some obscene number, around 80-90% of the people use cyworld, the Korean version of MySpace, that's the entire population, kids, teens, senior citizens, everyone). Google missed out and has been try to play catch up every since. They're like the Zune of search engines there. It's not surprising they're trying lots of new things for Korea only.
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