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Market share does not equal monopoly. Why aren’t Europeans building better search? It isn’t because of Google, it’s because of the risk-adverse tendencies of in
by briandear 8y ago
Market share does not equal monopoly. Why aren’t Europeans building better search? It isn’t because of Google, it’s because of the risk-adverse tendencies of investors in Europe. If you pitched a search engine to a Euro-VC, you wouldn’t even get asked for a deck. Europe isn’t very innovation driven: they prefer the 2x rather than the 200x. The proof is simple: just look at the flow of European investment money: rarely do they invest in high-risk, high-reward ventures. While in the US, you can raise money for almost anything.
- xg15 8y agoOk, we built our awesome EuroSearch. How do we get it on the start pages of Firefox, Chrome and Android?
- orteam 8y agoBy also building the awesome EuroBrowser? It worked for Google, just saying
- YokoZar 8y agoFirefox has had different default search engines in the past. At one point Yahoo was the default, and I believe it varied by continent. Ubuntu once switched from Google to Yahoo in its Firefox as the default search engine, citing higher payments from Yahoo.
- sievebrain 8y agoPay higher referral fees. Or did you think Firefox used Google search for free?