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Re:Why Google is not winning in Russia - and unexpected sear... by TomorrowMars on Sunday January 16, 2011 @05:42PM (#2110494)
Well, for Yandex, livejournal is as important as .gov domains for google. Livejournal.com is very important for Russians on the internet and completely irrelevant for everyone else. It's where american teenage goths write diaries about fat issues for us Yankees. In Russia, a lot of important people blog there, with thousands of readers and followers.
Re:Why Google is not winning in Russia - and unexpected sear... by thesz on Sunday January 16, 2011 @06:36PM (#2110631)
I often encounter links to LJ here, at HN. One-two a week.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=ru&q=site%3Anews.ycombin...

So maybe LJ isn't all that teenage goth for hackers.