Woz - 10:48 pm on Jan 30, 2008 (gmt 0)

From this press release [news.yahoo.com],

Google Inc. said Wednesday it has overhauled its Korean-language search engine to broaden its appeal in South Korea, one of the world's most wired countries and one of the few where Google isn't dominant.

In particular,

Local search engines such as NHN Corp.'s Naver Web site lead the sector in South Korea. ~ better adapted to factors specific to the market, with more visually complex sites and reliance on human interaction instead of software to get results.

Google has adopted universal search — a results-blending concept that has caught on at other top search engines ...

Hmmm, took them a while. Perhaps they have been reading here as this topic of Alternate Serps [webmasterworld.com] was discussed a long time ago.

What say out Korean members?

Onya
Woz