Good points. Yeah, China is a huge opportunity too. I already have the Chinese language done for Lill and will need to check it for formatting errors before posting.
1% of the Chinese search market is worth about $300 million (based on what was paid for a search engine a few months ago). It's not as juicy as the US market but I think it will be easier to capture a larger percentage in China than in the US (although we can do both). The #1 search engine, Baidu, mixes advertising with search results and people aren't as loyal to one search engine like in the US.
There are over 600 million internet users in China, by the way. Mobile, of course, is our next step with Lill (after Karma integration) to capture some of these users, too.
And Google runs very, very slow in China compared to the smaller search engines. So as an "outside" search engine we have the advantage of appearing to have unbiased search results (unline Baidu, which doesn't even identify which are ads) and also being faster than the biggest "foreign" search engine.
Those are really very good news.
We just have to have in mind that the bigger is the exposure of our website, the better have to be our security measures.
We need to remember to do do backups all the time to multiple places, check the firewall settings, use VERY strong passwords for the SSH/SFTP accounts, do not send passwords by email/messenger/facebookc chat in plain text, etc etc...
