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Wednesday morning, Google announced that they had done an overhaul on their Korean-language search engine, adopting universal search for the Korean site. Google is attempting to gain significant ground in South Korea, which just happens to be one of the world’s most wired countries.

Lee Won-jin, director of Google Korea, said that the results-blending concept of universal searc, which has already been implemented in Google.com, has now been implemented in the Korean language version of the popular search engine. (more…)

The SEMMYS Finalists Are Ready, finally! Matt McGee has announced that we can now go over to The SEMMYS and vote for our favorite posts of the year.

The voting starts at 12:00 pm ET (9:00 am PT) today. The finalists are listed over here for all 15 categories. Those that vote are expected to review each finalist and then click on the “VOTE NOW IN THIS CATEGORY” link under each of the 15 categories. A new window will open up, where you can place your vote for your favorite article/post of the year. You can vote until the end-of-day (PT) on January 30th.

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Word around the web is that Google is preparing to launch an offline version of Google Docs through Google Gears, a rumor which has been fueled even more now by what look to be screenshots of Google Docs in offline mode.  To date, the only official integration for Google Gears is Reader.  Google Blogoscoped, however, is claiming that Google Docs now has partial offline access.

Google Gears, which was announced last May at the company’s annual Developer Day, is a browser extension for Internet Explorer 6.0+ and Firefox 1.5+ which enables web applications to provide offline functionality through JavaScript APIs.

The screenshots over at Blogoscoped look pretty convincing, and it appears that Google is at least working on getting more of their tools to work with Google Gears.  For the time being, however, it appears that this Google Docs offline functionality is just being tested and is in the very early stages of integration.