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Google Now #1 Search Engine In Czech Republic 5 Countries To Global Domination

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Re: Google Now #1 Search Engine In Czech Republic 5 Countries To Global Domination

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Post by zoul »

As the article states, the numbers come from referals collected by Toplist, a Czech web stats service similar to Analytics. Not sure how that itself skewes the results. What’s more interesting is that Google only comes before its competior if you sum the numbers for google.cz with google.sk, its Slovakian version. I’m not sure why would we want to do that if we really wanted hard numbers for the Czech Republic only.

Re: Google Now #1 Search Engine In Czech Republic 5 Countries To Global Domination

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Post by garply »

sanxiyn wrote: post #2

South Korea needs a special mention since Google is not even #2 search engine here. (I believe it is #2 in other 4 countries.)

Naver, right? I've been using their image search engine a lot and have been quite pleased.

In general, I find Google's image search to be one of their weakest areas, even in English.

Re: Google Now #1 Search Engine In Czech Republic 5 Countries To Global Domination

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Post by sanxiyn »

garply wrote: post #4
sanxiyn wrote: post #2

South Korea needs a special mention since Google is not even #2 search engine here. (I believe it is #2 in other 4 countries.)

Naver, right? I've been using their image search engine a lot and have been quite pleased. In general, I find Google's image search to be one of their weakest areas, even in English.

Naver is #1, Daum is #2, Google is below that.

Re: Google Now #1 Search Engine In Czech Republic 5 Countries To Global Domination

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Post by thingie »

zoul wrote: post #3

As the article states, the numbers come from referals collected by Toplist, a Czech web stats service similar to Analytics. Not sure how that itself skewes the results. What’s more interesting is that Google only comes before its competior if you sum the numbers for google.cz with google.sk, its Slovakian version. I’m not sure why would we want to do that if we really wanted hard numbers for the Czech Republic only.

Seznam.cz itself (quite vehemently) claims that the numbers are not accurate and this claim isn't true. Still, there is a very clear downward trend with Seznam search and I don't know what can be done about it. Seznam search is most likely (technically) good enough to search the Czech web, but it doesn't cover anything outside that, it uses Bing for the rest of the world (in fact, it did use Google search for that, 5 years ago). But even if seznam.cz had 100% share of the Czech web search, that won't generate enough money to compete with Google (and seznam.cz has, in the Czech republic, still much greater revenues than Google). Also, it's not just search engine, seznam.cz has it's own freemail (still much more popular than gmail in the cz) or maps (mapy.cz, also more popular than google maps here). Personally, it everything feels like lagging at least 5 years behind Google. To illustrate, google maps can offer public transit routes and search here, in Brno, mapy.cz can't. There are salesmen that could easily make arrangements with the local transit company and make profit from it, but not enough developers to make it happen.

(I work at seznam.cz, not on anything search-related.)

Re: Google Now #1 Search Engine In Czech Republic 5 Countries To Global Domination

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Post by Someone »

zoul wrote: post #3

As the article states, the numbers come from referals collected by Toplist, a Czech web stats service similar to Analytics. Not sure how that itself skewes the results. What’s more interesting is that Google only comes before its competior if you sum the numbers for google.cz with google.sk, its Slovakian version. I’m not sure why would we want to do that if we really wanted hard numbers for the Czech Republic only.

The Czech Republic and Slovakia only recently (1993) split up.

Because of that, a reason could be that it is hard to split the statistics between those states because many Slovaks will use a Czechian search engine.

the other engines have only one site for the two countries, so that already have data for the Czech Republic and Slovakia combined. They should have mentioned it.

They do mention the following, though: It beats the aggregate share of Seznam.cz and two other Seznam sites, so it seems that comparison at least is/may be fair.

Re: Google Now #1 Search Engine In Czech Republic 5 Countries To Global Domination

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Post by ZoFreX »

tudorg wrote: post #6

I am curious how www.seznam.cz resisted so long against google. I tried it and it does seem as fast as google and it has a suggest feature, also very snappy. However, I just searched for 'hello' and got a Goatse in the images.

The Goatse image is named hello.jpg so that isn't quite as weird as it first seems.
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