The Google Doodle honoring the first manned space flight by Yuri Gagarin brings back memories of the Space Race between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War of the last century, but also could be seen as a mirror to the new Search Race that national search engines from the United States, Russia and China are now competing in.

Russia and China are two of the few countries that do not have Google as their dominant search engine. Now as Baidu – from China – and Yandex – from Russia – move to compete outside their own countries, the Search Race has taken over as an international competition for Cyberspace.

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