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KOREA: Is Google imitating Korean web services? [asiamedia.ucla.edu]
Google is accused of imitating Korean services after the world's top Internet search engine came up with a pair of applications similar to those of local Web portals this month.Two recent Google introductions suspected of this are a "universal search" unveiled last week and a "daily list of 100 fastest-gaining queries" disclosed this week.
Up until now Google's content sources have been separated so users could not see results all at once.
However, the universal search offers Web surfers an integrated way to search for and view information online by summarizing videos, images, news, maps, books and Web sites in a single set of results.
That is what Korea's so-called integrated search, which was launched by the country's primary Internet portal Naver midway through 2000, is all about.
Google ran into similar problems in China [webmasterworld.com] recently.
