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Don't get me wrong. I think Google should fry if they're blocking competing search engines from their browser. But:

Google also owns duck.com and points it directly at Google search, which consistently confuses DuckDuckGo users.

They wouldn't be so easily confused if the DuckDuckGo landing page didn't look nearly identical to Google's landing page. Contrast to Bing, Yahoo, Ask, Startpage, Qwant, Yandex (#1 in Russia), Naver (#1 in South Korea). The only other major search engine which makes the same mistake of copying Google too closely is Baidu (#1 in China).

Because there's just so many ways to visually format a search website.

Google also owns duck.com and points it directly at Google search, which consistently confuses DuckDuckGo users.

They wouldn't be so easily confused if the DuckDuckGo landing page didn't look nearly identical to Google's landing page. Contrast to Bing, Yahoo, Ask, Startpage, Qwant, Yandex (#1 in Russia), Naver (#1 in South Korea). The only other major search engine which makes the same mistake of copying Google too closely is Baidu (#1 in China).

There are several words in Korean that could be translated as everywhere. Manbang is one of them.

According to Naver's Korean-Korean dictionary there are four different words spelled "manbang" (three with Chinese roots, one a colloquialism):

1. Every place
2. A synonym for manguk (all the nations of the world)
3. In baduk (the game Go), what is said when you tally up the points and the difference is at least 91
4. A colloquial abbreviation short for "manhwa bang" (comic book store)

Abbreviations where one combines the first syllable of each word are common in South Korea, though I'm not sure about North Korea. If they do, then I suspect the fourth definition may have been the intended meaning. It's also worth noting that TFA never claims manbang translates as everywhere; that was added by the submitter.

A somewhat more laborious interpretation might be "in each and all places": http://endic.naver.com/krenEnt...

As long as the website adheres to the main elements of Korean web deign:

1. It used 5 meg of Flash to to render a simple (and hard to use) menu system,

2. It dosen't work in anything beside IE6 (Windows XP and an Intel CPU/nVidia video card are implied),

3. It uses tiled IMAGES of text instead of.... "text", as the web designers are to lazy/dumb to work out how to position their text in HTML properly (i.e. this ), or even better USE FLASH just to render the text (see the footer of Korean Air's website),

...then it can be considered a "typical" Korean website.

I have a background in Asian linguistics, and I don't think there's a real direct linguistic reason for these elements in Japanese, Korean and Chinese websites, I think it's (VERY simplified) more likely to be a historical/cultural thing than anything else.

mainly because you're a tool. Here is what a search of him in Korea looks like:
http://search.naver.com/search.naver?sm=tab_hty&where=nexearch&query=%B8%B6%C0%E7%C0%B1&x=0&y=0

news sites, images, magazine covers, videos, etc

Naver is a portal and search engine, despite what IamtheRealMike said. I've been living here in Korea for 5 1/2 years. Naver handles search, shopping, forums, maps, publics information like bus routes, and just about everything else in Korea.

It is so dominant that the number one search on Google in Korea for 2008 was "Naver" (in Hangul). That's right! Koreans only visited Google on accident and immediately went to Naver. If they didn't know the URL, they searched Google for it. What was the second-highest searched term? Daum, another Korean portal.

Not only do Koreans not use Google, they don't use MS OFfice much, either, favoring Hangul Office (.hwp files).

His name in Korean is ë¥ì±ífoe. As mentioned in this article - http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=ourbelief&logNo=130043884744 That would transliterate as Ryu-Seong-Tae, depending on the transliteration method you use. He may just have decided to transliterate it in his own way, as no one is likely to pronounce it properly anyway unless they can read Korean!

Well, it's certainly demolished. Pictures.

Korea to make robot abuse illegalhttp://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2007/03/07/South-Korea-to-make-robot-abuse-illegal//
**The original charter draft** This page is in Korean. But i am sure you will find a way to the pdf file.
First click on the http://cafe.naver.com/roboethics/
click on the the text 'koreanrobotethicscharter070403.pdf' on the right side in the middle.

This is similar to a whole bunch of websites we have here in Korea that run on a LAMP-stack and do not even work with Firefox on Windows, let alone any free operating system.

For instance, the number one portal/search site in Korea, http://naver.com/ runs PHP on Linux servers, yet the site is still broken for non-IE browsers. It's improved a lot, though.

One benefit of Microsoft breaking their own standards with IE7 and Vista is that the Korean government and companies are finally transitioning to a bit more standards-compliant way of running their websites.

So let's hope Microsoft rolls out a new version of their DRM soon, thereby breaking whatever BBC in their foolishness decided to lock themselves in to.

Still can't do any shopping here without ActiveX, though. It's like they don't trust SSL or something.

The South-Koreans have a nice service as well vod.naver.com. The service is very cheap compared to those mentioned above, only about 2000 won for new movies (which is about $1,50). The quality is near DVD and is distributed by a p2p like network, on which i usually get speeds above 150KB. Besides lots of Korean movies (sometimes with English subtitles) they also have a gazillion American movies.

Just like with cars, cameras, cellphone technology, etc. They won't be satisfied with playing third fiddle to the Japanese and Chinese, they'll make their own distro, just to be different. Of course, like Kia cars are built locally from Mazda/Ford specs, and like Daewoos are built from GM plans, this will be built from a common base (probably Asianux) and touted as an all-Korean project. What interests me, though, is that this is even being considered as an option. Honestly, I haven't met a single Korean in my 114 months here who has even heard of linux, let alone one who'd actually consider using it. This country is completely hooked on windows, internet explorer and ActiveX. Check out a few typical korean websites for more flash, javascript, popups and other assorted evilness than you can probably bear...

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According to Alexa.com's traffic ratings, heres the breakdown of the top 5

1. Yahoo.com
2. MSN.com
3. daum.net (Korean)
4. Naver.com
5. Google.com

And dont forget everyone's favorite portal Pajonet.com, whick ranks in at 82,915th place in the world!

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