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In Some Places, Local Search Beating Google

Posted by kdawson on from the think-globally-search-locally dept.

babooo404 points out Newsweek coverage of Google focusing on areas in which the search giant may be vulnerable. In some countries outside the US, local competition is handing Google its head. In South Korea a company called Naver dominates. And in Russia, portal site Yandex leads in both search and advertising. In the Cyrillic language market Google is a distant third in search, and Yandex is trouncing Google in the advertising arena by 70% to 2%.

3 of 216 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Newsflash! by mattgreen · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wait, what about the parent is flamebait?

    Oh, the fact he's making an unpopular comment about the corporate flavor of the month.

  2. Re:Gotta Love It by Beyond_GoodandEvil · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Some of us English don't consider the Americans (those from the USA, that is) as native English speakers.
    Until the Germans come calling, then it's all, "Hey Yanks come over and have some fish and chips or bangers and mash."

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    I laughed at the weak who considered themselves good because they lacked claws.
  3. Re:OTOH by Bastard+of+Subhumani · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Google's contextual ads showing up in Gmail for mail in Russian are absolutely irrelevant to the subject most of the time as compared to mail in English.
    That's because it's not cost effective to target ads to people whose monthly salary is half a potato.
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    Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.