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Probably seeing the stock lose more than half of it's value by pulling from the biggest market it operates in would see Google reverting their stance quickly.

Probably seeing the stock lose more than half of it's value by pulling from the biggest market it operates in would see Google reverting their stance quickly. Also, most likely, you would see bing+other local search engines gain traction, same for mail, maps, etc. Lets not forget, that a lot (majority?) of google search users use whatever the search engine is by default on their browsers and aren't really concerned about using google per se. Except search, a lot of folks where I live don't use google products (and if I switched their search engine they probably wouldn't notice that much except for saying it looks different)

kuschku 10y ago
Actually, a lot of people already use bing maps instead of Google maps because of poor quality of Google maps in several European markets. In my city in northern Germany (300k population), Google hasn’t updated anything since 2004. Refuses to integrate transit, although transit data is available in the requested format. While Bing and Here maps both have data from last month, with 3D imagery, and realtime transit data. Of course it’s easy to choose which maps app one will use. And all the nice AI features Google has over Bing & Co – like Google Now’s "you have to go 5min earlier to work because of a traffic jam" obviously don’t work without realtime transit and up-to-date maps data.
- blablablame 10y ago
  Same here. Bing imagery is more current. Apple maps has traffic information. Google maps has.... well.... its slow... that is pretty much it.
- efdee 10y ago
  Interesting. In Belgium Google Maps is still many times more useful than either Bing or Apple maps. Transit info, realtime traffic, everything.
- detaro 10y ago
  And for people on foot/bike there is OpenStreetMap, with way better coverage of parks, foot paths and stuff like that. Often even outside the cities, which are covered nearly perfectly.

kuschku 10y ago

Actually, a lot of people already use bing maps instead of Google maps because of poor quality of Google maps in several European markets. In my city in northern Germany (300k population), Google hasn’t updated anything since 2004. Refuses to integrate transit, although transit data is available in the requested format. While Bing and Here maps both have data from last month, with 3D imagery, and realtime transit data. Of course it’s easy to choose which maps app one will use. And all the nice AI features Google has over Bing & Co – like Google Now’s "you have to go 5min earlier to work because of a traffic jam" obviously don’t work without realtime transit and up-to-date maps data.

blablablame 10y ago
Same here. Bing imagery is more current. Apple maps has traffic information. Google maps has.... well.... its slow... that is pretty much it.
efdee 10y ago
Interesting. In Belgium Google Maps is still many times more useful than either Bing or Apple maps. Transit info, realtime traffic, everything.
detaro 10y ago
And for people on foot/bike there is OpenStreetMap, with way better coverage of parks, foot paths and stuff like that. Often even outside the cities, which are covered nearly perfectly.