Vkontakte.ru - Russian Facebook Clone Growing By Leaps & Bounds

If you've never heard of Vkontakte.ru before - you're not alone. It was shocking to discover that it rose all the way to Alexa #34 in very short order. The site is growing so fast and is so popular in Russia that the country's secret service FSB got concerned that it might become a security risk because the Russian soldiers are signing up in droves. Social networking keeps demonstrating phenomal international growth. This shouldn't be a surprise: according to comScore's "State of the Internet" report from March of this year, Social Networks are the fastest growing vertical on the internet globally (60% annual growth) with under 40% penetration rate (versus 90% for portals).

What's even more amazing is that as far as I can tell, the site seems to be a carbon copy of Facebook - but localized in Russian and cyrillic alphabet. According to third party sources, the company has a team of only 20 people. It ranks among the top ten sites (based on Alexa stats) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

Russia is the country in Europe with the lowest market share for Google at 32% (versus Portugal's 94%) and its top 3 sites are all homegrown: Yandex, Mail.ru and Rambler. Facebook might find itself fighting an equally uphill battle in this important BRIC internet market.

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