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0 pointsuser59944617y ago0 comments

What is the first search engine?

Baidu in China. Yandex in Russia. Google in the US. Not sure for India and Latin America.

The poster was probably thinking of Bing though, which is ironic because it's maybe less used than these.

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I was assuming a global perspective, for which Google is obviously first. (And I quoted Wikipedia confirming that at a shade under 93% market share.)

user5994461OP7y ago

Funny thing, you're describing exactly why you're not assuming a global perspective. Forget about a first, the world is fragmented. To be global is precisely to cater to individual locations around the world.

If we are to believe these stats, Google is at 3% market share in China. It's basically non existent. http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/chi...

Microsoft has developers everywhere in the world, who need docs. There are major search engines besides Google and Bing.

OJFord7y ago

Okay, so s/global/whatever you want me to say, for what you definitely know that I mean.

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OJFord7y ago

I was assuming a global perspective, for which Google is obviously first. (And I quoted Wikipedia confirming that at a shade under 93% market share.)

user5994461OP7y ago

If we are to believe these stats, Google is at 3% market share in China. It's basically non existent. http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/chi...

Microsoft has developers everywhere in the world, who need docs. There are major search engines besides Google and Bing.

OJFord7y ago

Okay, so s/global/whatever you want me to say, for what you definitely know that I mean.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse