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Not necessarily the same things happened also in Russia.

Competition can still happen just locally and while competition is good when the scale is unbalanced it can be just as bad or worse than no competition at all.

Almost no one is developing a Google search competitor because it’s near impossible to do so while people have access to Google the need isn’t there and you can’t compete unless you are actually better there isn’t as much niche to search as people think. You also have the problem of resource imbalance where Google can just go and buy out the local competition at ease due to their wealth this what has happened with dating and P2P commerce sites all over the world.