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Sounds like a market opportunity for someone.

Sounds 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.)

Posted by gpjt on Nov 27, 2014, 4:44 PM

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Sounds like a market opportunity for someone.

gpjtNov 27, 2014, 4:44 PM

Sounds 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.)

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