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Google to open South African office, follows in Amazon’s footsteps

Started by VinnyLingham · 10 months ago

ITWeb reported that Google has finally appointed a Country Manager to setup it’s South African operations.
South African Internet usage has grown 120% in the past year, and it won’t be long until you see eBay, Yahoo & the others follow Google & A ... Continue reading »

21 comments

  • Matthew Buckland

    1 year ago

    I'm a big fan of Google and what they have achieved and how they have revolutionised the online advertising market. I find it amazing how many "traditional" online publishers have a love/hate relationship with Google. One thing I would encourage Google to do is be more transparent about the commissions it pays via Google Adsense...

    Wrote more about it here: http://www.matthewbuckland.com/?p=35
    and here: http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/wp/matthewbuckla...
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  • Ramon Thomas

    1 year ago

    Very interesting news indeed. Thanks Vinny for bringing this appointment to my attention. I met Stafford a few years ago when I tried to sell a sponsorship for very large Open Source research project to him, on behalf of World Wide Worx. Anyway he's done wonders for open source and has the vibe, the vision and the veracity to pull it off for Google.
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  • PublisherZilla

    1 year ago

    Very true. From what I've seen, South Africa has is home to many of the worlds most intelligent people. If any internet company were going to build a name for themselves there, I'm glad to see Google will be one of the first.
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  • SHOUT.co.za

    1 year ago

    What fantastic news! And no doubt you will enjoy fantastic support after such a shining review!
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  • Alan Hammond

    1 year ago

    As Matthew says, we online publishers have a love hate relationship with Google. But you can't hold back the tide so we are just going to have to change to meet the Google challenge. Google's arrival is certainly good news for Africa. Not just the search engine but also the additional services they seem to come up with at Google all the time. So many of Africa's issues could be dealt with by the smart application of technology, which a company like Google could facilitate.
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  • Mike Mothner

    1 year ago

    South Africa is certainly growing dramatically in all spheres - socially, politically, and economically. With continued growth especially in terms of internet usage here, it makes perfect sense that Google would want to establish a South African office. I think it's a great step forward, both for Google and South Africa!
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  • Cape Town Villas

    1 year ago

    Great news! South Africa has huge internet development potential I feel. This is long overdue!
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  • Yves VdM

    1 year ago

    Fantastic News !!! They should have been here in SA yesterday, but I'm really happy for South Africa that they finally show interest in this booming market. Our blog has a strong focus on South Africa and our number one partner for online marketing has been Google. Since day one ... and with amazing results like ROI up to 600 procent .... actually a better investment then property !

    We are actually from Brussels, Europe and have an upcoming project planned in Central America but the amazing thing about online business is that you become geographically free. You can become a location independant professional, travel the world and looking to surf offline. For that J-Bay is as good as it gets.

    We did an internship for 18 months and are now enjoying a well deserved holiday of 6 months ... next month we fly back to Europe for 2 months ... we might come back for another 3 month holiday in J-Bay before exploring Central America the next 3 months ... sounds like living the life ?

    Anyway sorry to get off track, this is an mindblowing blog and this news makes my day !!!
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  • Molo Cape Town

    1 year ago

    This, for the first time make my Google SEO philosophy called "google is a person" a reality in RSA. More to follow in the future on the Quote, but that aside, the quote is officially dated now, although first mentioned to Eric E. and Max K. in 2007.. was it June? It will become a model I m sure!

    Molo 12-02-08
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  • Richard

    1 year ago

    This news has just made my day. Im speechless, WOW! Google has been my first web buddy since I got my hands on the internet. Im an internet fanatic and damn im so flippen addicted to it. I always find an excuse to surf the web. What i'd do is that id look for a job online, get the job, than i would want to resign just so that i can look for another job online. Its so fun, but I think I must stop doing that now because i got a daughter and I will need to stay in one permanent job position so that i can take care of my daughter financialy, by the way im a 21 year old male from South Africa in Cape Town and I would be more than happy if Google opens its branch in "The Mothercity". Im so excited, yepie!
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  • Phillip

    1 year ago

    Ok this great that google is going to open in south africa But google already made a mistake and i have 11 reasons why i say so
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  • Phillip

    1 year ago

    One of my first reasons is , the projek maniger , it is gonna fail , sorry , but if it is gonna work great south africa , then there will be light in the low point of africa, there should be a strick line of apointing people , the should watch out for bbe , I already work for one of the bigest companys in the world Sasol , and bbe is bringing it to the ground , all the best for google, And please make it work
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  • Maureen

    1 year ago

    I watched it on Carte Blanche and I would LOVE to work for Google!
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  • Richard

    1 year ago

    Should Google appoint/hire me than id be the happiest man alive. Iv got Microsoft Office experience, I love surfing the net and using the Google search engine to find important URL's and iv also got Sales Experience. Id be on top of the world working and growing with a company that I admire. I love you guys. Cheerz.
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  • Richard

    1 year ago

    Iv got Microsoft Office experience, I love surfing the net and using the Google search engine to find important URL's and iv also got Sales Experience. Id be on top of the world working and growing with a company that I admire, a company like Google. I love you guys. Cheerz.
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  • Ruth mokhatla

    1 year ago

    i just saw the insert on the company, please if you guys are moving to south Africa can i work for you guys....lol(serious though)
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  • lydia

    1 year ago

    just wanna know where your offices will be ?
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  • I HATE GOOGLE SOUTH AFRICA

    10 months ago

    GOOGLE SOUTH AFRICA SUCKS> IT IS MISSING MANY BASIC SERVICES AND HASN"T DEVELOPED AT ALL IN A YEAR> EVERYONE SHOULD BE FIRED WHO ARE WORKING ON IT
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  • Arjun

    9 months ago

    An interesting article, thank you. I hope that your predictions that we’re going to see a lot of world first innovations coming out of South Africa will come true.
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  • Dwight

    9 months ago

    I was surprised to read that South African Internet usage has grown 120% in the past year, and of course I hope that it won’t be long until we see eBay, Yahoo & the others follow Google & Amazon’s recent foray (Amazon’s Cape Town office built EC2) into South Africa.
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  • dannylombard

    8 months ago

    I can start by saying I'm maybe a little late to comment ons this where will I be able to contact google south africa I have phoned the google headquarters they don't really know what the status is. Secondly as far as i'm concerned google is the pioneers of the internet without them how would you find that perfect plugin for your game or so on without google I mean what is the first page you look at in the morning I bet its google, damn all the naysayers who are they to say they didn't create the largest and more sufficient search engine on the planet

    Google I salute you!!!
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