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Business is what is stopping Google from not servicing Europe. Google makes huge part of its profit on search in Europe and pays almost no tax in Europe. If Go
by flexie 9y ago
Business is what is stopping Google from not servicing Europe. Google makes huge part of its profit on search in Europe and pays almost no tax in Europe.
If Google stopped servicing Europe, one or more European competitors would emerge in days or weeks and Google's dominance would be threatened worldwide within months. It would be a completely suicidal move.
- cJ0th 9y agoYeah, it seems "search" isn't as untouchable as it used to be. Qwant, for instance, may not be a 100% there but it is quite good. https://www.qwant.com/ https://www.qwant.com/
- zepto 9y agoWhat are you taking about? Any Google Search competitor needs to be seriously better than google in order to stand a chance, ‘not 100% there’ is equivalent to not there at all. Moreover Qwant is just bing search results repackaged.
- cJ0th 9y ago> Moreover Qwant is just bing search results repackaged. Not in France and Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant#Criticism