{"id":1863,"date":"2019-11-29T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/czechpoints.com\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2019-11-29T20:08:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T19:08:11","slug":"seznam-calls-out-google-over-unfair-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/czechpoints.com\/seznam-calls-out-google-over-unfair-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Seznam calls out Google over unfair practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Googles plan to comply with an EU directive to cease illegal practices has Seznam crying foul. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quartz reports<\/a> on Googles plan, excerpt below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you live outside the Czech Republic, you\u2019ve probably never heard of the search engine Seznam. But for many Czechs, as the company likes to say, \u201cSeznam.cz is synonymous with the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seznam is an internet search company whose algorithms \nare built on the Czech language. It launched in 1996 in Prague, with \nabout 50,000 Czech koruna (about $2,200) in funding. Early versions of \nSeznam.cz displayed a list of popular Czech sites\u2014seznam<\/em> means \u201clist\u201d in Czech\u2014as well as a summary of Czech news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\n was two years before Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google in Palo \nAlto. As Google gobbled up most of the global search market over the \nnext decade, Seznam\u2019s unique Czech identity made it the rare local \nplayer that held its ground in search. Seznam also expanded into other \nfree services like maps, email, and price comparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\n 2008, Google dominated the market for general internet search in 30 of \nthe 31 European Economic Area (EEA) countries. The exception was the \nCzech Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But sometime in the past decade, Google came for Seznam too. The EU believes Google overtook its Czech competitor around 2011<\/a>. Data from ad marketing agency eVisions shows Seznam still held a majority share of the Czech search market at the start of 2014<\/a>, but that Google pulled ahead in the second half of that year. The latest data from eVisions put Google\u2019s share of search on the Czech internet at 74% as of the end of 2018, nearly three times Seznam\u2019s 26% share. Google\u2019s share of mobile search was even higher, at 81%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the rest at QZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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