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In Some Places, Local Search Beating Google
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%.
And in Japan, Google is not in charge of Gundam.
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.. that has got to be a terribly painful experience. I saw a fish get googled once... yuuuuck!
Do it yourself, because no one else will do it yourself. [beta blockade 10-17 Feb]
Well, I'll paraphrase his post for you so that you might understand.
"Google sucks, how have you not figured this out yet? It only serves to further the interests of its stockholders.(something which may be argued about every company on the planet, how insightful) Quit talking about Google and use other search engines since Google is so obviously evil (although I have provided no insight or evidence as to why this might be the case)."
Help any?
In keeping with the rest of this thread, how could this post possibly be modded off topic, let alone be the only post in the thread modded as such? It's a direct response to a question presented by the parent post which is, itself, not modded as off topic.
Not even going to post as AC for this because it's so absurd.