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I agree, yandex is a great search engine
by kome 4y ago
I agree, yandex is a great search engine
- lotusmars 4y agoWell you can have it in the West. We'd prefer something separate from Kremlin.
- zeofig 4y agoWe can have what, a great search engine? Maybe if you have a time machine to 2003
- lotusmars 4y agoJust take it to America from us, thank you. Along with VK. Great search engine and a social network. Full of backdoors for thugs and corrupt police, censorship and other lovely stuff... but you'll probably say that Google is full of it too, because you had no experience of living in Russia.
- speed_spread 4y ago2003 certainly didn't have a better search engine. It only had a much smaller, open and un-SEO-biased Internet, making the indexing job correspondingly easier.
- bgandrew 4y agono it's not. they straight up serve kremlin, promoting kremlin fake news and silencing russian opposition (not much to silence but still). they can have whatever functionality they like, I still won't use it in billion years.
- ok123456 4y ago
- cmsj 4y agoYeah we definitely shouldn't worry about the political sympathies/vulnerabilities of the web services we use as the foundations of our shared knowledge...
- lizardactivist 4y agoHow do you feel about western-owned web services?
- lotusmars 4y agoPeople in Russia felt much safer using iCloud, Gmail or Google Drive. Of course they comply to some requests by Kremlin or police. But Yandex or VK just give information straight away often times without much procedure.
- dang 4y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31847666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31847666 since it turned into a tedious generic flamewar.