Today I made a very interesting experiment. You should do it too because it's fun: type "to buy" in your own language in google and check out the most popular search results.

For Russian it's "купить" - and here we get the top 5:

1. iPad/ iPhone 4

2. квартира в Москве (apartment in Moscow)

3. диплом (university diploma)

4. доменое имя (domain name)
5. авто (car)

It's interesting, isn't it? Even though a couple iPad and iPhone was even more predictable than Papa Noel for Christmas; some positions leave some place for imagination.

Like let's say university diploma. What the heck with it? Like everything else, education is for sale in Russia. The sites offering "diplomas of the best quality for affordable price" want to inspire you: "You need a social position? You want to build a successful career? Make a step forward to your future - order our diploma. Quality guaranteed." In the end, it doesn't surprise me why some Russian politicians can't spell "Russia" without making a mistake. (it's Rusia for them) :p

For domain name it's a new story. Starting from 11/11/2010 you can register domain names written in Russian (using Cyrillic transliteration). For example http://www.россия.рф/ is a perfectly working url now. This new thing made big agiotage on the web; some lawsuits have already set over it. Like for ownership of "авто.рф" name. Coming back to our Google top 5, you can guess why.

Now you see how one simple google search can tell you something interesting about the country. Especially if this country is Russia!