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I've never expected to use a Russian search engine to evade censorship but there we go: https://www.google.com/search?q=datalink+gw1000 https://www.google.com/

• micael_dias 9y ago
  I'm amazed they provide links to other search engines at the bottom of the results.
  • qb45 9y ago
    I suppose it's for convenience when yandex doesn't find what you are looking for. Don't worry, Russia isn't exactly a freedom of speech heaven and if the government had a serious issue with these other search engines they wouldn't be there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_for_Supervision_in_the_Sphere_of_Telecom,_Information_Technologies_and_Mass_Communications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_for_Supervisio...
    • dagenleg 9y ago
      At the same time you don't see google or bing linking to other search engines. So I think linking to the competitors for your users convenience is a pretty neat thing to do, which probably irks countless top managers daily. Don't belittle that little neat touch just because it's a russian website.
      • qb45 9y ago
        True and I don't dispute that. I'm not even sure if what I posted makes much sense, I was somehow stuck in the context of using alternative search engines to evade censorship and figured that parent suggests that these links may have something to do with it.
• jhasse 9y ago
  First time I've used Yandex and it is a perfect example why Google is still the best search engine: The Yandex site has a fixed header (wasting vertical screen space), useless animations in the footer, and Firefox showed me that it blocked Flash from running ...