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> But there is competition. Bing, DuckDuckGo, even Yahoo's still hanging in there. Only if you are English speaker and are looking for English sites (which is
by mbel 12y ago
> But there is competition. Bing, DuckDuckGo, even Yahoo's still hanging in there.
Only if you are English speaker and are looking for English sites (which is the case only for minority of Europeans). Apart form Google other search engines are localized either poorly or not at all.
- pgodzin 12y agoWhich sounds like a great service that Google provides that greatly differentiates it from its competition, not a monopolistic barrier.
- gpjt 12y agoSounds like a market opportunity for someone. In Russia there is Yandex, in China there is Baidu. The EU has a larger population and much higher GDP (~market size?) than Russia, and a higher GDP than China. (Actually, a higher GDP than the US, according to Wikipedia.) Even if we have to break it down by language, Germany, France, and the UK have larger GDPs than Russia. Italy's not far behind. So why is there no European competitor -- or multiple EU competitors -- to Google? (Apart from the obvious snarky "someone might start one but then they'd have to worry about being hamstrung by EU Parliament resolutions once they got too powerful" reason -- Russia and China are hardly bastions of libertarian capitalism.)