Better than a “Global Player”. Interview with Yandex Product Marketing Director
... Internet companies either bought or dislodged from the market everything that existed in Europe. If we talk about Europe's largest Internet services (it makes no sense to speak of European Google or European Amazon in this context), there is only the Opera ... ... landscape of the country with its national search engine, national social network, our VKontakte, and its powerful e-commerce. In Russia, no one would die if something suddenly happened to Amazon or to eBay. Our experience in Turkey shows that, having come to a country where people just knew Google, we managed to win about 7 percent of the desktop market ...