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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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| Valdronius wrote: |
| I am offended that .ca has not been mentioned in this thread. |
Well, give us some examples of major Canadian sites that use .ca
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Jack Slater
Title: Friendly Felon
Joined: May 17 2009
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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tuque.ca
kraftdinner.ca
eh.ca(apparently some kind of directory for all things Canadian)
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JRA
Joined: Sep 17 2007
Location: The Opium Trail
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tuque.ca
kraftdinner.ca
eh.ca(apparently some kind of directory for all things Canadian) |
Don't forget letssearchfortreasure.ca
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Seems like a good way to keep kids away from porn (by making filtering easier), but unless it's mandatory for every provider of adult material it's pointless.
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Valdronius
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Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: The Great White North
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Well, we have .ca versions of google, msn, ebay, craigslist, and kijiji, but the highest ranked, uniquely Canadian domain is cbc.ca, our version of cnn.com.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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Location: Wakefield, MA
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There's no reason you guys couldn't just use regular Craigslist, MSN, eBay, and Google. CBC would be in trouble, as CBC.com is taken.
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Mr. Satire
Joined: Jun 08 2010
Location: Termina Field
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| There's no reason you guys couldn't just use regular Craigslist, MSN, eBay, and Google. CBC would be in trouble, as CBC.com is taken. |
I don't think it would be a good idea for Canada to use the US's eBay. Their current eBay has auctions from Canada, and uses the Canadian currency. The US one has auctions from the US, and uses the US dollar for currency. Merging these would not be ideal, for those and other reasons.
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Captain_Pollution
Title: Hugh
Joined: Sep 23 2007
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I used to be able to use American Google, but now it just redirects me to the .ca one whenever I try 
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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is there an inherent difference between google.com & google.ca?
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Captain_Pollution
Title: Hugh
Joined: Sep 23 2007
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It's just geared more toward Canadian content, I think. Plus the search suggestions on google.ca are from Canadian searches, and thus also focus on Canadian stuff more.
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<Drew_Linky> Well, I've eaten vegetables all of once in my life.
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Mr. Satire
Joined: Jun 08 2010
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The only difference I once saw with local Google sites, is a button that allows you to have search results from the world, or just from your local country. Now the search results seem to cater to each person's country of residence (type cheesecake as a search, and you will get websites for local shops that sell, well, cheesecake).
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24887
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| There's no reason you guys couldn't just use regular Craigslist, MSN, eBay, and Google. CBC would be in trouble, as CBC.com is taken. |
I don't think it would be a good idea for Canada to use the US's eBay. Their current eBay has auctions from Canada, and uses the Canadian currency. The US one has auctions from the US, and uses the US dollar for currency. Merging these would not be ideal, for those and other reasons. |
Well, eBay could have you pick your home country and prioritize results from that country and display auctions in your home currency.
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
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Canada is the only thing keeping kotaku viewable these days.
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