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I think author misses that the Chinese market isn't free and most of the western sites are blocked by the great Firewall. I think their market would look at lot
by amix 17y ago
I think author misses that the Chinese market isn't free and most of the western sites are blocked by the great Firewall. I think their market would look at lot differently if their market was free and anyone could compete on it.
- padmanabhan01 17y agoSo basically the Govt blocks free western sites so that these entrepreneurs can make money. Nice.
- FooBarWidget 17y agoMatch.com isn't blocked. And if I'm a Chinese (I am) in China visiting a western website the first thing I'd think is "OMG it's not in Chinese", after which I'd go look for a native version. Some sites do localization, but it's rarely done correctly. For example search results are still polluted with foreign information and some pages are only available in English.
- Frazzydee 17y agoNot saying that your points aren't valid, but you should know that I've found western sites generally load far slower than Chinese ones in China. I completely gave up trying to use facebook without turning off images.
- nuggien 17y agoYour comment is probably misinformed. But even if it was a free market and nothing was blocked, it's still unlikely a foreign company will win out over a local homegrown equivalent. Like google/baidu, or cyworld trying to take on the US market etc.
- maxklein 17y agoYou're ridiculously uninformed. The chinese market is very free, and very very few sites are blocked compared to the size of the internet. Don't comment when you have no idea.