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The traditional way to do this would be something like building a domestic search engine and levying steep taxes on foreign ad buys, rather than this bizarre at
by koboll 6y ago
The traditional way to do this would be something like building a domestic search engine and levying steep taxes on foreign ad buys, rather than this bizarre attempt at backhanded protectionism.
- morelisp 6y agoI don't know if you can say "traditional" so much as "historical". It's extremely difficult for software services to differentiate a domestic offering in the same way as physical goods - let alone when both countries share a language and the service has little cultural content per se. Has a second-mover service ever overtaken a first-mover via on this strategy within in the Anglosphere? Or even within "the west"? (Xing vs. LinkedIn maybe? But everyone I know has both...)
- bg24 6y agoDomestically building something like this and maintaining it is almost impossible. People have freedom and they will switch to Google (or a better site when it happens) irrespective of what Govt desires.