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"I guess my point is the current situation, basically 2 companies controlling so much traffic, seems, well, bad for small business in this country" Why "in thi

"I guess my point is the current situation, basically 2 companies controlling so much traffic, seems, well, bad for small business in this country" Why "in this country"? Isn't it a problem for the entrepreneurs in the rest of the world too?

SloppyStone 10y ago
More importantly, which country?
- kapauldo 10y ago
  Fake indignation devalues legitimate indignation, you know which country.
  - ryandrake 10y ago
    Australia?
rackforms 10y ago
Yes, and I should have said as much.
iopq 10y ago
Chinese businesses don't care, Russian businesses don't care, etc.
- coldtea 10y ago
  Says who?
  - iopq 10y ago
    Nobody in China uses Google other than English speakers. Google is notoriously bad at breaking Chinese characters up into words. Few people in Russia use Google for Russian language searches, this is because Google is not as good at declining Russian nouns and conjugating Russian verbs. Yandex gives more results of a higher quality for certain searches.
    - coldtea 10y ago
      >Nobody in China uses Google other than English speakers. Google is notoriously bad at breaking Chinese characters up into words. That has no bearing on whether Chinese businesses care. Obviously there are tons of Chinese businesses that sell outside China, including retail businesses, and their customers DO use Google. Same for the Russian case.
    - kofejnik 10y ago
      >> Few people in Russia use Google for Russian language searches This is not true, Google has >20% share in Russia iirc
      - iopq 10y ago
        I didn't say nobody, I said few. 1/5 is not that many compared to the usage in English-speaking countries.
    - maxdo 10y ago
      That's bulshit, Google auditory is bigger even in Russia, not saying about other russian speaking countries. prof: https://www.searchengines.ru/google_oboshel.html https://www.searchengines.ru/google_oboshel.html
      - tetromino_ 10y ago
        Your article says that Google has overtaken Yandex in terms of the total usage for the traditional and mobile version of the Google website and its mobile apps (emphasis mine). So a reasonable explanation is that Russians are increasingly using Google's apps: gmail, google calendar, the google now launcher; which probably has something to do with the fact that these apps come preinstalled on their phones. Not necessarily that they prefer Google for searching for Russian-language websites.

SloppyStone 10y ago

More importantly, which country?

kapauldo 10y ago
Fake indignation devalues legitimate indignation, you know which country.
- ryandrake 10y ago
  Australia?

rackforms 10y ago

Yes, and I should have said as much.

iopq 10y ago

Chinese businesses don't care, Russian businesses don't care, etc.

coldtea 10y ago
Says who?
- iopq 10y ago
  Nobody in China uses Google other than English speakers. Google is notoriously bad at breaking Chinese characters up into words. Few people in Russia use Google for Russian language searches, this is because Google is not as good at declining Russian nouns and conjugating Russian verbs. Yandex gives more results of a higher quality for certain searches.
  - coldtea 10y ago
    >Nobody in China uses Google other than English speakers. Google is notoriously bad at breaking Chinese characters up into words. That has no bearing on whether Chinese businesses care. Obviously there are tons of Chinese businesses that sell outside China, including retail businesses, and their customers DO use Google. Same for the Russian case.
  - kofejnik 10y ago
    >> Few people in Russia use Google for Russian language searches This is not true, Google has >20% share in Russia iirc
    - iopq 10y ago
      I didn't say nobody, I said few. 1/5 is not that many compared to the usage in English-speaking countries.
  - maxdo 10y ago
    That's bulshit, Google auditory is bigger even in Russia, not saying about other russian speaking countries. prof: https://www.searchengines.ru/google_oboshel.html https://www.searchengines.ru/google_oboshel.html
    - tetromino_ 10y ago
      Your article says that Google has overtaken Yandex in terms of the total usage for the traditional and mobile version of the Google website and its mobile apps (emphasis mine). So a reasonable explanation is that Russians are increasingly using Google's apps: gmail, google calendar, the google now launcher; which probably has something to do with the fact that these apps come preinstalled on their phones. Not necessarily that they prefer Google for searching for Russian-language websites.