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I have resorted to using Russian (Yandex) and Chinese (Baidu) search engines in the last few years. It is interesting that non commercial sources have more of a

I have resorted to using Russian (Yandex) and Chinese (Baidu) search engines in the last few years. It is interesting that non commercial sources have more of a voice on these search engines than on Google today. Google is good at many things, but their leadership is questionable now, unlike in the past. I would pay a subscription fee for a service that provided partity with Google and customer service that answers the phone.

akudha 4y ago
Have you tried this one? https://neeva.com/ https://neeva.com/ No idea how good it is, I remember it was posted here a while ago
- redavni 4y ago
  Have not. I will try it now though.
outworlder 4y ago
Aren't those heavily censored?
- mojuba 4y ago
  Yandex censors the results mostly for Russian IPs as far as I can tell, but they stay neutral for the outside users.
  - trasz 4y ago
    Nope, just yandexed for “bucha massacre”, 2nd place is already Rashist propaganda.
the_duke 4y ago
> It is interesting that non commercial sources have more of a voice on these search engines than on Google today. I sort of agree, I also sometimes use Yandex and am usually positively surprised. I can immediately see two reasons: A) SEO efforts are targeted Google/Bing, not other search engines that don't focus on the target market/language/region. Of course that argument can be twisted around: these search engines don't focus on Western languages, so could in theory be more susceptible to SEO trickery. It's interesting that they aren't. B) Ad money. Google is strongly incentivized to prefer search results that show Google ads. For foreign search engines there is no money to be made, so they can disregard that signal.