As an English language user Yandex is awful for typical use in my experience. I'd say at least a third of the results it serves on its English site are Russian.

As an English language user Yandex is awful for typical use in my experience. I'd say at least a third of the results it serves on its English site are Russian. That said, I find myself using Yandex quite a bit simply because I can assume it has a Russian bias, or at the very least it doesn't have the same biases you might expect from a search engine operated in the West. I think a lot of people would be surprised at the extent at which Google and other Western search engines filter their search results today. A lot of content which might be labelled "extreme" or politically problematic I find is now either missing entirely from Google search or pushed so far down in the results that it's practically inaccessible. On Yandex I find I don't have this problem. As an example during the pandemic Yandex was pretty useful for finding conspiratorial content about Covid-19 which was censored by Google. Not that this is necessarily a good thing for the average user, but it has its uses if you're trying to come to your own conclusions about things rather than relying on the narrative provided by Western media companies. It's obviously also been useful when trying to better understand the Russian side of the ongoing RU/UA conflict which has either been completely absent or very unfairly portrayed by most Western media sources (again, perhaps for good reason, but still).