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It's probably worth noting: * Google is blocked in China * Google and Bing are not blocked in Russia While we're at it * Facebook is blocked in China * Fac

It's probably worth noting: * Google is blocked in China * Google and Bing are not blocked in Russia While we're at it * Facebook is blocked in China * Facebook is not blocked in Russia * VK (Facebook alternative) is more than twice as popular as Facebook in Russia

yeukhon 11y ago
Did you mean google.com or google.com.cn?
- mrdrozdov 11y ago
  Thanks for the clarification. I was going by this wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_C... So google.com, which does detract from my point.
  - yeukhon 11y ago
    It's okay. I think your points are still very beneficial to have. IMO native companies always have advantage as they usually have better understanding about the culture, user preference, and government. Portal is a big thing in the Eastern Asian countries like China and Japan so for a long time Yahoo and MSN search used to be leading the game until, of course, more Internet search engines come online.
- fiveyearsinarow 11y ago
  Both google.com and google.com.cn are blocked, along with all other country specific Google domains.
mahranch 11y ago
Also, the largest search provider in Japan is Yahoo! Japan (2nd largest is Google, which has been slowly gaining). Coincidentally, Yahoo! Inc does not own Yahoo! Japan. They are only a minor shareholder. Softbank is the largest shareholder of Yahoo! Japan. Yahoo! Japan is also extremely different from Yahoo! that we know. In Japan, it's a social network, auction house, storefront, message board, news service and search provider all rolled into one. And they started doing this years before anyone else (becoming a one stop shop). The site may look dated today, but it was years ahead of its time when it started doing all those things. It's one of the reasons why they've been so hard to unseat. They got in early, sprawled out and cemented their place in Japanese web culture.

yeukhon 11y ago

Did you mean google.com or google.com.cn?

mrdrozdov 11y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I was going by this wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_C... So google.com, which does detract from my point.
- yeukhon 11y ago
  It's okay. I think your points are still very beneficial to have. IMO native companies always have advantage as they usually have better understanding about the culture, user preference, and government. Portal is a big thing in the Eastern Asian countries like China and Japan so for a long time Yahoo and MSN search used to be leading the game until, of course, more Internet search engines come online.
fiveyearsinarow 11y ago
Both google.com and google.com.cn are blocked, along with all other country specific Google domains.

mahranch 11y ago

Also, the largest search provider in Japan is Yahoo! Japan (2nd largest is Google, which has been slowly gaining). Coincidentally, Yahoo! Inc does not own Yahoo! Japan. They are only a minor shareholder. Softbank is the largest shareholder of Yahoo! Japan. Yahoo! Japan is also extremely different from Yahoo! that we know. In Japan, it's a social network, auction house, storefront, message board, news service and search provider all rolled into one. And they started doing this years before anyone else (becoming a one stop shop). The site may look dated today, but it was years ahead of its time when it started doing all those things. It's one of the reasons why they've been so hard to unseat. They got in early, sprawled out and cemented their place in Japanese web culture.