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Google Setting Up a Presence In Kenya

Posted by kdawson on from the out-of-the-comfort-zone dept.

Reader wana forwards the news that Google is establishing a base in Sub-Saharan Africa. What advanced infrastructure exists on the African continent is mostly in South Africa, and a blogger from there speculates on what Google might have been thinking in choosing Kenya over SA.

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  1. Number one search? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Food or water? I'm racing to get my ads up.

    1. Re:Number one search? by Pollardito · · Score: 2, Funny

      if they're only living to 55 on average it's probably not worth investing in Viagra adwords

  2. Re:Only in Kenya by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 4, Funny

    I believe the lyric is "forget norway"

    http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/kenya/

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  3. Why Kenya? by Rimbo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because it's better than Norway!

  4. Kenya by OverlordQ · · Score: 4, Funny

    where can you see Google?
    only in kenya
    come to kenya we've got Google!

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  5. Space Elevator by zzztkf · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know Google is going to build the space elevator to go to the orbit. Kenya is better than SA for that purpose.



  6. They evaluated by dotpavan · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..Nigeria, but the Nigerian Prez rejected Google's offer via email which said "Eric Schimdt would like to invest millions of dollars in Nigeria, but first, send $500 to our Western Union"

  7. About geography by Koookiemonster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Kenya is in the middle of the continent -- does that make any difference?

  8. Re:fairplay by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Funny

    One of the biggest exports of Kenya is (decent) coffee. Google is staffed by geeks. Do I really need to connect the dots here?

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  9. Re:Google Knows: +1 Informative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dumbass attempt at social engineering with that fake informative tag. It's useless on Slashdot, nothing social works on nerds.

  10. Forget Norway by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where can you see google, only in Kenya. Come to kenya we got google. Forget Norway. Kenya...

    http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/kenya/