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Texas has a larger GDP than Russia. Imagine if you were the search engine for Texas. It’d be a nice business, but not massive.
by nostromo 5y ago
Texas has a larger GDP than Russia.
Imagine if you were the search engine for Texas. It’d be a nice business, but not massive.
- dvh 5y agoI'm curious, what kind of features would "search for Texas" have to have to make 90% people switch from Google?
- dottedmag 5y agoBetter language support if Texas had its own language. Note that people in Russia didn't switch from Google to Yandex: people in Russia switched from Yandex (and Rambler) to Google once Google has developed capabilities to search in Russian. Russian is flective language, so it's not trivial.
- bobthepanda 5y agoYandex predates Google. So the question is not really making 90% of people switch from Google but making 90% of people stay on Yandex. Inertia is a pretty big stumbling block. There is also potential for local differentiation to be much stronger. Naver in South Korea manages to achieve this.
- codedokode 5y agoYandex also paid to browser and smartphone vendors to be installed as a default search engine.
- phtrivier 5y agoPromote very very local news, venues, events ? Take the rural / urban répartition of texas into account, rather than California's one ? To put it bluntly, be ostensibly "more red" than google (even though you would end up giving most of the same result, because the state is way more purple than expected) ?