you dont see avast running full page ads in popular magazines or coming pre-installed on new computers, just for starters...
AVG have head Offices in US, UK and Netherlands, which classifies them as a multinational. We all know that $$$ has not necessarily led to better AV performance.
Consider that avast are open source with home base outside the main markets.
onlysomeone shows a different picture. We have the same thing here with Yahoo - we have yahoo.com and yahoo.co.nz. But Google has been fiully localised into google.co.nz - this where searching google.com will take you.
Hi YoKenny. Last I recall - a year or so ago - Google was still running their algorithm for rankings returned by search as 50% for paid advertising (that is, 50% head start) and 50% for organic (volumes returned from natural rate of click throughs).
I think they change the algorithm at least monthly to deter the scammers, and they have a big team checking returns from their spider bots anyway. They were once uncrackable but I have heard more recently that they have taken their eye off the ball a bit. Initially - back in their days of "Do no Evil" they prided themselves on the integrity of their returns from organic based. But not for a long time now. When we speak of integrity nowdays, we look to people like Alwil.