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5. Another random guess is that it's easier for a German than for a Russian to migrate to English service. In principle, Facebook is localised. I could imagine
by pmjordan 16y ago
5. Another random guess is that it's easier for a German than for a Russian to migrate to English service.
In principle, Facebook is localised. I could imagine that few apps are translated to German though, and even fewer to Russian, except those built by native developers; (I don't use any apps, so I don't know) that native developer pool ought to be the same as the one building VK (or VZ) apps. Assuming Facebook does a decent job of filtering localised apps, I can't imagine this to be a massive issue for users.
I can only assume the media upload is what keeps people coming back.
All of the other reasons you mention seem to be reasons why businesses would prefer VK over Facebook, but surely it's the users that are the key?
- edanm 16y ago"I can only assume the media upload is what keeps people coming back." People keep coming back because that's where their friends are.
- ugh 16y agoSee, that’s what I would have thought about StudiVZ and yet Facebook could spread in Germany like a wildfire. StudiVZ still has millions of users but Facebook has those same users, too. (This is only anecdotal evidence but Facebook also seems like the busier place to me, activity has transitioned from StudiVZ to Facebook.) This tells me that even if a social network seems to have a particular market cornered, a competitor still has a chance. (Which, I think, is quite nice to know.) Network effects are obviously important and have to be considered by anyone who wants to build a social network but I think there are certain properties of social networks that dampen network effects: Signing up is easy and free, for one, and rebuilding the social graph, while some work, is far from tedious. You only have to add some friends and recommendations get you the rest of the way.
- ZoFreX 16y agoIt might be just a Russian phenomenon. Are there any other countries where Google is not the dominant search engine?
- count 16y agoBaidu-Baidu in China.
- jarek 16y agoAnd for a bit of a non-obvious one, Seznam in the Czech Republic.
- marchdown 16y agoI wonder if Seznam really is more popular than Google in ČR. Do you have any data to support this? Also I wonder what the deal is with Jyxo.cz. How much behind Seznam is it nowadays? Wasn't it technically superior?
- jarek 16y agoMy citation for the Seznam claim is "I read it on English Wikipedia". I have no idea if it's accurate. Sorry.
- handrake 16y agoNaver in South Korea. Google's been struggling to get its market share for the last few years without much success.