Is google the best in other countries??

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a3196

Dec 26th 2004, 5:27 pm

Hi, Merry Christmas Everyone...,,

I live in US, but since I'm a korean and korean is more familiar with me, I use search engine made by korean company....

It seems obvious that google is the best in US....

How about in other countries like countries in Europe and so on.....

In Korea, the best search engine is Naver.com (http://www.naver.com) If you check it on alexa, They get lots of traffic....

So...My question is google dominate the world?? or just in english countries??

Thanks..

daamsie

Dec 26th 2004, 5:37 pm

There are often other alternatives around, particularly in non-english speaking countries.

In Australia at least, Google is king.
In Holland I believe ilse.nl is quite popular, although I'm not sure how they compare with google.nl these days, as we get a lot more traffic from google.nl than ilse.
In Italy, I understand virgilio.it is rather popular.

In our stats, we get lots of visits from google.fr, google.de, google.it, google.es, google.nl, google.be and so on - many of them more than yahoo or msn, so I think overall google is king !!

a3196

Dec 26th 2004, 6:18 pm

Thanks...And your sites look great...!!

MJweb

Dec 27th 2004, 1:17 am

The best in France (more than 75% of market share) !!!

szy

Dec 27th 2004, 2:03 am

Google has about 60% in Poland.

More: http://ranking.pl/rank.php?stat=silniki10PL

Szy.

eduardomaio

Dec 27th 2004, 7:29 am

I think you are confusing "the best" with "the most popular".

In Portugal we have Google (google.pt), Sapo (wich uses Google data), IOL and Clix.

Also, since our brazilian friends use our language we (at least in all the websites I run) get a lot of traffic from google.com.br too...

Olney

Dec 27th 2004, 8:57 am

I'm seeing that a lot of the Japanese search engines are changing over to using Google feeds for their data.

melfan

Dec 27th 2004, 9:04 am

On my side of the world google dominates. There are local SE but googles still holds about 80% of it.

MJweb

Dec 28th 2004, 1:12 am

But i think google is not "the best", just everypeople using it, that's all.

daamsie

Dec 28th 2004, 3:00 am

eduardomaio

Dec 28th 2004, 4:15 am

Ok, so which one is most popular in Portugal then?

Sorry, I've put them by order... It's Google.

a3196

Dec 28th 2004, 5:03 am

Interesting.,,, Google dominate in many countries.....

But in korea, Google is doing really bad,, about 10% maybe less then 10% using google...

I think that's because korea is too small and many people use Portal rather than pure search engine,,

And in Korea, Mouth to Mouth marketing is really important also because they are small,,,,

Anyways,,Thanks everyone,,Happy New Year..

daamsie

Dec 28th 2004, 6:10 am

My understanding is that the internet developed much quicker in Korea and as a result it was much harder for Google to enter the market there when they did. Also, I think maybe Korean searchers prefer the glitz and busy-ness of a portal to the sparseness (boringness?) of Google. Just some theories :-)

uca

Dec 30th 2004, 10:30 am

In Italy, I understand virgilio.it is rather popular

That's correct, although Google is the benchmark.

It's a matter of opinion if it's the best, but it's obviously one of the best and also it's the most popular.

rjcable

Dec 30th 2004, 1:57 pm

Google rules in the UK, I would say 70% of my sites traffic (http://drive-recovery.8bit.co.uk and http://server-data-recovery.8bit.co.uk) come from google, about 18% from Yahoo and about 4% from MSN.

Dominic

Dec 30th 2004, 4:07 pm

Google is most popular in Australia by far, second is ninemsn (partnership between channel 9 tv and msn).

Lever

Dec 30th 2004, 4:16 pm

Agree with rjcable - I work on UK sites with between 50-90% of traffic from Google. One site has a lot of international appeal and there are plenty of Google referrals from Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Poland and Finland - I only wish I could present my work in those languages :)

a3196

Dec 30th 2004, 10:57 pm

Does google have same business strategy throughout the whole world??

Or

They have different strategies depending on the location??

Google.co.kr(korea) look the same too me..

daamsie

Dec 31st 2004, 7:22 pm

I think it's pretty much the same across the globe. Not all features are available in other languages though.

mohamad1983

Jan 3rd 2005, 8:01 am

well it is also the best in lebanon i guess u dont knowlebanon it is in the middle east...

scisoft

Jan 3rd 2005, 9:07 am

Unfortunatelly a major local directory (Czech) takes almost 60% of searches, the share of Google is close to 25%.

This is a BFF (translate CJU, Common Joe the User) syndrome, since Google is a foreing word. I keep meeting medium size company managers completely unaware about Google existence at all.

a3196

Jan 3rd 2005, 3:58 pm

I know Lebanon,,,I mean,,I've never been there but I heard about it...
It seems like I can say Google dominate the world,,,