Google is a company which was founded in 1998 in Silicon Valley by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. This company was built around the search engine of the same name, which is to say on the Internet. It subsequently developed its business around various Internet services.
Segmentation became crucial with regards to the geographical criteria. Indeed, easy access to the Internet directly represents the development level of a country. A population without access to electricity or computer technologies cannot surf the Internet. That means it will not have access to the search engine Google.
Geographic segmentation can offer services which are custom and specific for each country. There is a search engine not only for each language, but also for each country. For example, Spain and Argentina are two Spanish-speaking countries.
However, each of them has their own search engine in Google. Moreover, a country can have its service in different languages: say at Belgium it is in Flemish and Walloons, whereas in United States it is in English and Spanish.
The geographical segmentation is also found in all the services offered by Google in addition to its core business which is research on the internet. Indeed, OECD countries have access to more services than poor countries. This applies to, for example, Google News.
This service is not available for the Afghans, where Internet users number 25,000 with a total population of 31 million inhabitants. Yet Google News is now in all countries that are rich and have voice development. The geographical segmentation is most suited to strategic analysis of Google.
Tags: Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, strategic management of the Google Enterprise
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