At least my Korean friends seemingly can’t stand Google. This made me curious since I conversely can’t stand Daum or Naver the Korean equivalent. Well actually I can’t stand much about Korean Web Design. To much flash, horrible browser support (honestly does anyone but Mr. Camp like IE?), activeX on every site, and a totally painful attachment to a security protocol that doesn’t conform with the rest of the world.

So wondering about the Google thing I ran across this article on Reddit the other day, here is an excerpt about Google:

Koreans do not use Google. Though there is a Korean version of Google (which works just fine), almost all Koreans use Korean search engines, Naver or Daum. Interestingly enough, most Korean search portals do not crawl web pages automatically. Instead, the search databases are based on registration and payment from websites. Because of this, most Korean websites don’t seem to be too concerned with search engine optimization, much less Google at all.

So I guess, one reason they don’t dig Google is because, well, Google can’t find whatever it is they are searching for. Silly since almost all of the Korean phone manufactures are producing smart phones featuring Google Android; which obviously has native support for Google web solutions.