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> Really only two companies (Google and Microsoft) have a high-quality global web link index ... Yandex and Baidu also have pretty good index, and perhaps woul
by webmobdev 4y ago
> Really only two companies (Google and Microsoft) have a high-quality global web link index ...
Yandex and Baidu also have pretty good index, and perhaps would be even cheaper than Bing. I'd say they only lack in terms of the data (search queries, search result links clicked etc). It's just US protectionist policy (on behalf of the BigTech) at play here to avoid these services. Both Yandex and Baidu outperform Google when it comes to Russian and Chinese search queries, clearly indicating they are at par (or even better) than Google in terms of search algorithms. The only thing they lack is better data, and that's why they struggle with foreign search queries. (Though I find Yandex has improved a lot here, enough to make it my regular search engine).
- rwalle 4y agoLOL. Have you actually used Baidu? It is trash. Results are full of heavily SEO-ed sites and sites that grab other websites' content and present as if it's their own. I say this as someone who has used Baidu for many years, including before Google was forced to leave China in 2020.
- webmobdev 4y agoNo, I don't use Baidu as it performs poorly for english queries. From what I have read online, the popular sentiment is that Baidu is better than Google when it comes to chinese search queries. Ofcourse, like Google they have the monopoly advantage (atleast in China). Yandex, I do use daily - it's good with queries it knows about, but struggles with new / unknown queries (for e.g. when I search something geographically related or local, at which Google is obviously better because of its userbase).