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Search in Europe

November 8th, 2009

So what is going on in search markets around the globe? Let’s take a look. Russia. The Russian search market belongs to Yandex and Google; the engines which accounted for 96% of all search traffic in Russia in August. Yandex edges out Google at 54.4% of all searches (plus a 7.4% share contributed by Mail.ru  [...]

 
 

When the World Wide Web … Isn’t.

August 1st, 2009

Google has run into trouble in some countries offering all of their services and some users in those countries assume it’s Google playing favorites – but in many cases, it’s the country’s own government that blocks features or limited infrastructure to support bandwidth in others. Some of the noted features missing from Google across the [...]

 
 

Germany Joins China, UK in Internet Bans

January 17th, 2009

The latest in a long line of bans and restrictions towards Google comes from Germany; they will start to hand out blacklists to internet providers soon, or so several German news sources including Spiegel report. This move is professed to be only about the need to filter child porn. In about 6-8 weeks the dealings [...]

 
 

Google Chrome Blocked in Many Countries

October 16th, 2008

Germany thumbs-downed the new Google browser Chrome of their own accord, citing security issues. Germany and Google have a hate/hate relationship, as evidenced by many lawsuits; Germany actually has a habit of winning against the search giant as evidenced by the victory of German-born venture capitalist Daniel Giersch in his battle to retain the trademarked [...]

 
 

Google /Germany Feud Continues

October 1st, 2008

Germany has problems with the way Google does a lot of things. They actually publicly denounced the new Google browser Chrome, saying it was highly insecure and shouldn’t be used without severe modifications and disabling many functions – in fact, they ended up coming out with their own version from the Chromium open source and [...]