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- Topher06, on 10/11/2007, -5/+171Why would someone that can't read use an internet search engine?
- lcarsdeveloper, on 10/11/2007, -5/+98"I can't believe Google falls into the mystery meat trap..."
Wait, just because you can't read the Korean text underneath the images (which are called labels), doesn't mean the site uses "mystery meat". That term only applies to when your menu links are comprised entirely of images, but if you disable the images you can still use this site perfectly fine. If you can read Korean that is. I don't need to move my mouse over the red dot to know that it will take me to GMail if I click on it, because the text underneath says "GMail".
No, I'm not keen on the animated icons, but if they were static images I would have no problem using the site.
Google USA: 11KB
Google Korea: 44KB
Get rid of the animated icons and mouseovers, and I think it will be fine.
Anyway, all they're really doing is taking the icons from this page: http://www.google.com/options/ and moving them to the homepage. - haochi, on 10/11/2007, -2/+84Screen shot of the page if you didn't have Korean fonts installed
http://googlified.com/files/google-x-revives-korea.gif - NccWarp9, on 10/11/2007, -13/+83This is cool, would like to see google use it as standard
It is still minimalistic, but ... more fun :) - msquared, on 10/11/2007, -4/+72@PradaPete
Just because you can't read Korean, doesn't make this mystery meat navigation. - noodlez, on 10/11/2007, -3/+69agreed. it doesn't depart from anything, its still pleasant and minimalistic and well done. animation and minimalism are not mutually exclusive.
i was expecting animated flames for the background, 1997 style. - rstarr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+61Because you're bat ***** insane.
- scuzzman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+49Those 'wierd symbols' are called language, you uncultured swine.
- slapded, on 10/11/2007, -0/+47as long as the google front page never equals yahoo, google will remain king
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+41Because kekeke.
- leetdood, on 10/11/2007, -0/+36or engrish. either works.
- d3bruts1d, on 10/11/2007, -0/+34Reminds me of the old Google-X that they played with a long time ago before Apple made them take it down.
- Quiwi, on 10/11/2007, -2/+35kekeke
- MaMoose, on 10/11/2007, -1/+33Google-X
http://www.theplaceforitall.com/googlex2/ - ChronicColonic, on 10/11/2007, -3/+35oooo...someone is getting his Digg feelings hurt!
The next statement will be, 'what about a Korean that can't use a computer?' - Radan, on 10/11/2007, -4/+32Gah! You people really needs to get a sense of humour! It's pretty obvious he's referring to the stereotype Korean no lifer who hasn't got any knowledge of the English language whatsoever and is therefor limited to the internet slang of "GG", "KK", "LOL" e.t.c.
- spyrochaete, on 10/11/2007, -1/+27I always install multinational regional fonts when I install windows. It's so much clearer that you've stumbled upon a foreign site, and not a broken one, when you see the native language text on a page.
To install regional fonts in Windows XP:
Go to the Control Panel
Go to Regional and Language Options
Place checks in the boxes for complex script and East Asian languages
Click OK
I can't remember but I'm pretty sure you need your original Windows disk for this process. Note that the East Asian fonts take something like 250MB of space. - phoomp, on 10/11/2007, -2/+28@PradaPete
"I can't believe Google falls into the mystery meat trap..."
North American usability experts often seem to forget that people from different cultures may have different understandings of what is "usable" - TheTankengine, on 10/11/2007, -0/+25Actually, engrish would be preferred.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+26OMG SO KAWAI!!!111 ^______________________^
Oh wait, that's weeaboo. - pdiddle, on 10/11/2007, -10/+33gg = good game
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+24oh snap! the google page is going web 1.0!
- snorbaard, on 10/11/2007, -3/+21@PradaPete.
There's no mystery meat involved. The text below the links still describe the action. When mousing over, you just get _additional_ information - alrahman, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19Yeah, I mean everything MUST be a copy of Apple. No one else can think like Apple, Apple FTW
/sarcasm - monospaced, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17probably trademarked
- Zippo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16I like it. It's still pretty damn simplistic and clean compared to most search engines.
- matude, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15why is "I'm feeling lucky" in english?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15I think Google just wants to follow the trend in Korean websites' designs.
If you've noticed almost all websites in Korea have animated images, flashing pictures and colorful sites...and yes Koreans like it.
So I guess, Google just wants to follow this trend. - Hulka, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15uhh, yes it is.
- cjswerve, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Americans like fat, excessive stuff, check out there kids and cars. So maybe Google's American site could have fat, over-sized animated icons. Its cultural marketing at it's best!!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16@Topher06
"Why would someone that can't read use an internet search engine?"
Porn. - dedmond29, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16Simple, but effective
- kelchm, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15I like it. Its google with a little design flair.
- Anthop, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13Google did this for its Korean site because in Korea, Google is on the defensive against a much better entrenched company called NHN which not only has the largest market share search engine in Korea, but also is the largest internet company in Korea overall. (Plus, evidently, their search engine does better when searching Korean pages than Google does.)
NHN's search engine is called Naver and is very Yahoo-esque. I think in order to better compete with Naver, Google is trying to move its interface for its Korean search engine more in that direction.
For more info on NHN:
http://www.nhncorp.com/nhn200512/en/main/index.html
http://www.naver.com - fragsta, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16Umm, okay, it's cool I guess, but...
Why? - SambekZX, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12I agree. Google is not as popular as Yahoo in Korea, so Google is trying to take a step toward marketing according to their tastes. Koreans enjoy single-layer webpages, with every conceivable navigation link on the front page in tiny fonts. It's a mess according to Western standards, but Koreans have grown accustomed to it. Examples:
http://kr.yahoo.com/
http://www.daum.net/ - cypher543, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Looks fine to me. (Running Firefox 2.0.03 on Windows XP SP2)
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15Did someone say "weeaboo"???
- TrainingName, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11GOOGLE ON WHEELS
- monospaced, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11@PradaPete
HOW is it mystery meat? Please explain. - webcrumb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11You do know there is a difference between North and South Korea, don't you?
Wait.
You do know there is both a North Korea and South Korea, don't you? - h4mx0r, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12It doesn't feel like a 90s design...
I mean, animated icons like these weren't that common... I think... - bob_the_alien, on 10/11/2007, -5/+15You should buy allot of illegal guns, start living like it's the 1600's, build a complex in Wyoming, and hold up for 3 years, building an occult falling, as well as your army.
And when the FBI shows up at your complex, say you demand Google Korea be taken down, or you succeeding from the United States.
This seems like the only rational way for you to deal with your angry to me, HAVE FUN. ;) - PerennialTears, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Damnit. Now my Gmail webpage shows up in Korean text. When I type in Gmail.com it shows up Korean, when I search for Gmail it shows up Korean. ARAERRARARARARAGAGAGAGGAGGAG I'm freaking out.......... Man.
- ahtnamas, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12BLOW THAT
- MavRevMatt, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10It's funny to translate it using Google's own translator.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.kr%2Fig%3Fsp%3Dkorea%26hl%3Dko&langpair=ko%7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
"Blow that" - PrincessZelda, on 10/11/2007, -8/+17THE WHEELS OF CHANGE ANGER ME
- chrisrowe, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10@skuzzman
Toy Story quote? (Mr Potato Head to Ham)
Man, I love Toy Story... - antoniojvr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Gmail - 2.8GB where there is not a spam the mail
Torque - The chatting and the transformation which it enjoys from web
Calendar - The web schedule civil official where the joint ownership is easy
Note - When where it stands, or, web [su] [khu] lap
Toolbar - Nine writings which it enjoys from browser
Desktop - Easy quick my computer search
Picasa - The gun toe album whose editing and owning jointly are easy - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8/me steals those animations for something
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