kokorunna:

As long as Nigerians keep on approaching them to setup google.com.ng or youtube.com.ng or facebook.com.ng then they are killing business for web developers and small business

Fhemmmy:

This is like the case of going to whiteman and wanting to get them to taking the black into slavery, meanwhile, Black man sold black man into slavery.
Nigerians are calling them in to set up in Nigeria and now we wanna condemn them?
Also, most of the sites that has been mentioned, they are not buoyant enough to compete . . . .Business is not about being fair, it is about having what it takes.

JAZES:

My brother as much as i agree with you that its about being buoyant, my point is google is eating their cake and having it too.
Truth is google can never try what they are doing in Nigeria right now in USA, they paid millions of dollars to people in the states for using their datas without their consent sometimes back when they launch google buzz how much more when they steal people's biz model.

Lets face it, this is daylight robbery. This is stealing people's biz model and anyhow you look at it, they are dead wrong. If nairalist,dealfish or tradestable was an american company, what they will do is to offer to buy the websites not create their own.

We all know that they bought youtube and so many other successful online business model. That is the right thing to do not steal someone's biz
model just because they are using their platform to advertise.

Fhemmmy:

Please note that i am on same page with you, but all i want you to know is that it is time for people like those that you mention to do business and be willing to take some risk as well in those business.

Most of the sites you mentioned, they start something and you hardly see any improvement in years, but google always looking for ways to improve.
Most classified sites in Nigeria are all about the number and money they could make, they never sat back and imagine what people really need, how many times or how much money have they spent to really market their idea and sites . . . they would rather add some google adsense for them to get some money from Google on a monthly basis.

If we are Google, we would do same, why would i wanna give some people some money for advertising with me, when i can take over the market.

Watch out, more site will be gone soon . . . we need to learn to constantly improve.

omo9ja1:

this article has no meaning to me no offense, but you are free to air your opinion

omo9ja1:

this article has no meaning to me no offense, but you are free to air your opinion

segunjowo:

I wonder why google is doing this anyways. I wanted to create a website recently and the web designer I consulted insisted I use a .com.ng address system. I asked him why and all he could say was it´s what google wants for Nigeria. I insisted he register my address as .com, because I know from the little experience I have with web address system that .com.ng is a subdomain (a child domain) of .com address. I don´t care what google wants for Nigeria, I care about what I want for myself. If Nigerian google clients decides to deal with google, they can do it. google can´t just come around and steal the market from the likes of tradestable, nairalist and the rest without them fighting back? but then, this is Nigeria. I am sure some people are making money from this venture already and they will fight for google to remain in business in Nigeria. don´t forget, opportunity abounds in Nigeria, and each time these foreigners come, they exploit us to the fullest. remember MTN, Econet, etc, The profit MTN declares p.a in Nigeria is more than any profit declared by several countries the rest of the world combined.
let´s watch it, wait and see,

Hodaya:

In China, Google had issues simply because the Chinese government realized the dominance of google will make it impossible for her citizens(local businesses) to compete.

Bawss1:

Not correct. Google had issues with the Chinese government over censorship. The Chinese government wanted Google to censor content in the local version of it's search engine.

vinderbilt:

Business is not fair, so no need to complain Google is killing anyone. Survival of the fittest, that is life!

vinderbilt:

Business is not fair,  so no need to complain Google is killing anyone. Survival of the fittest, that is life!

I wonder why google is doing this anyways. I wanted to create a website recently and the web designer I consulted insisted I use a .com.ng address system. I asked him why and all he could say was it´s what google wants for Nigeria. I insisted he register my address as .com, because I know from the little experience I have with web address system that .com.ng is a subdomain (a child domain) of .com address. I don´t care what google wants for Nigeria, I care about what I want for myself. If Nigerian google clients decides to deal with google, they can do it. google can´t just come around and steal the market from the likes of tradestable, nairalist and the rest without them fighting back? but then, this is Nigeria. I am sure some people are making money from this venture already and they will fight for google to remain in business in Nigeria. don´t forget, opportunity abounds in Nigeria, and each time these foreigners come, they exploit us to the fullest. remember MTN, Econet, etc, The profit MTN declares p.a in Nigeria is more than any profit declared by several countries the rest of the world combined.
let´s watch it, wait and see