I'm not entirely clear of what is being said in this post (http://www.ringblog.net/tt/531), since I'm relying on Google's Korean to English machine translation, which is pretty dodgy. The impression I get is that the author is complaining that Korean Web developments don't get adequate respect as innovators, but in fact, innovations that originated in Korea are having a disporportionate impact on the Web worldwide. Several examples of innovations that started in Korea and spread elsewhere are then offered, such as local search, and the Korean precursor of Yahoo! Answers.
Lycos Retriever is also cited as a Korean innovation. Now, it is true that Daum bought Lycos in October of 2004, but the inspiration and design for Retriever did not originate with Daum, nor did Daum engineers participate in any design or development of the system. Work on an earlier version of Retriever was already underway before Daum bought Lycos. It is purely coincidental that a system that seems very much in line with Korean web developments happened to be produced at a company that was acquired by a Korean company.
Nevertheless, it is fascinating to see how Korean innovations on the Web are being adapted to the US market and whether they will catch on or not. I'm not sure, for example, that Lycos Planet is catching on so well.
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