If you want to think that then that's fine by me. Would be interesting to see the usage of Naver in 2001 versus Google in 2001 in terms of percentage of local population. (even if Google had 3 years head start)

Yahoo was before Google and Japan has been on Yahoo forever. Yahoo is American but they engorged on it in Japan.

Google is just a copy of a copy.

Koreans and Japanese were definitely ahead of the West in both phone and internet uptake.