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They are still the most popular search engine in Russia, they have the best brand, etc. Intangible stuff like that is hard to copy. Running a search engine on
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They are still the most popular search engine in Russia, they have the best brand, etc. Intangible stuff like that is hard to copy. Running a search engine on the scale of Yandex is very expensive so I don't think that they are going to be replaced by some startup that copies their code and adds a few features. Probably a bunch of bugs will be found but that's not the end of the world. Apparently they handle images pretty well so parts of that may be (illegally) copied in some places.
- Aleksdev 4y agoI can still see many companies trying. If the opportunity is there to make money off of this leak then someone will attempt it.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4y agoKnowing how stuff like anti-spam algorithms and ranking algorithms work in order to abuse them is probably the much higher value here.
- pshirshov 4y agoThe code is lot less worthy than the data for the models which is lot better guarded and is not in this leak.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4y agoProbably true. I don’t know much about exploiting algorithms like this, but doesn’t even knowing how the algorithms work give a somewhat substantial advantage in stuff like SEO?
- pshirshov 4y agoFrom my own understanding - not really, most of such stuff is done with ML models. Code worths almost nothing there.
- geraldwhen 4y agoI use Yandex when DDG and bing censor real results.