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I wrote a comment a few years back how I was using Yandex quite a bit at the time because there are things I'm simply unable to find on Google – sites like sci-

by kypro 3y ago

I wrote a comment a few years back how I was using Yandex quite a bit at the time because there are things I'm simply unable to find on Google – sites like sci-hub for example. Today though I find myself using it daily. The results are far from perfect, but I've never suspected them to be randomly hiding or suppressing search results like many of the popular Western alternatives. I don't use image search much, but yes I completely agree with you there. Google image search is completely unusable to me at this point, so I always default to Bing and Yandex for that (still need to try Brave). And Yandex imo is the only search engine with a functional reverse image search anymore.

sva_ 3y ago
> sites like sci-hub for example To be fair, that is not Google's fault. It always cracks me up that when you see the DMCA note on the bottom and you click on it, you get to see the hosts anyways: https://lumendatabase.org/notices/26024315 https://lumendatabase.org/notices/26024315
- atahanacar 3y ago
  That is how I search for pirated content.
  - WeylandYutani 3y ago
    Yes the Russians don't really produce a lot of software or entertainment that Westerners want. So they have no stake in enforcement of copyright.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  >Senders: [...] Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH Why am I not surprised to see Springer as one of the claimants? /rhetorical question
unsupp0rted 3y ago
Why don't you just click on Google Image Search's Pinterest links?
Barrin92 3y ago
>but I've never suspected them to be randomly hiding or suppressing search results the word 'random' must be doing a lot of work in that sentence given that they are subject to Roskomnadzor's regulations and are thus forced not just arbitrarily but systematically censor content: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/01/a-window-into-yandex-s-censorship https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/01/a-window-into-yandex...
- veave 3y ago
  But us westerners usually don't care much about that kind of censorship because it doesn't affect the searches we normally do. ("normally" as in "we usually don't search stuff about russian politics")
  - mrguyorama 3y ago
    How about if you do searches about history? In Russia, it is explicitly a crime to portray the "Great patriotic War" as anything but noble, wonderful, and a huge russian success story. Multiple game developers have active warrants for arrest in russia because they put a russian tank in their game that isn't OP, or have a campaign that accurately demonstrates an unsavory thing the soviets did in the 40s.
  - throw-ru-938 3y ago
    While I was still living in Russia, llvm.org was blocked for several years because fuck you we balling.
- tri5635hhfgvv5r 3y ago
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- mc32 3y ago
  It looks like the best solution is for “westerners” to use Yandex and everyone else to use Google or Bing and this way they can search with less targeted censoring on their terms.
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Phemist 3y ago
www.tineye.com is also a pretty good image searcher.
- gs17 3y ago
  It's better than what Google offers now, but still worse than Yandex.

by kypro 3y ago

sva_ 3y ago

> sites like sci-hub for example To be fair, that is not Google's fault. It always cracks me up that when you see the DMCA note on the bottom and you click on it, you get to see the hosts anyways: https://lumendatabase.org/notices/26024315 https://lumendatabase.org/notices/26024315

atahanacar 3y ago
That is how I search for pirated content.
- WeylandYutani 3y ago
  Yes the Russians don't really produce a lot of software or entertainment that Westerners want. So they have no stake in enforcement of copyright.
FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>Senders: [...] Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH Why am I not surprised to see Springer as one of the claimants? /rhetorical question

unsupp0rted 3y ago

Why don't you just click on Google Image Search's Pinterest links?

Barrin92 3y ago

>but I've never suspected them to be randomly hiding or suppressing search results the word 'random' must be doing a lot of work in that sentence given that they are subject to Roskomnadzor's regulations and are thus forced not just arbitrarily but systematically censor content: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/01/a-window-into-yandex-s-censorship https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/01/a-window-into-yandex...

veave 3y ago
But us westerners usually don't care much about that kind of censorship because it doesn't affect the searches we normally do. ("normally" as in "we usually don't search stuff about russian politics")
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  How about if you do searches about history? In Russia, it is explicitly a crime to portray the "Great patriotic War" as anything but noble, wonderful, and a huge russian success story. Multiple game developers have active warrants for arrest in russia because they put a russian tank in their game that isn't OP, or have a campaign that accurately demonstrates an unsavory thing the soviets did in the 40s.
- throw-ru-938 3y ago
  While I was still living in Russia, llvm.org was blocked for several years because fuck you we balling.
tri5635hhfgvv5r 3y ago
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mc32 3y ago
It looks like the best solution is for “westerners” to use Yandex and everyone else to use Google or Bing and this way they can search with less targeted censoring on their terms.
- 3y ago

Phemist 3y ago

www.tineye.com is also a pretty good image searcher.

gs17 3y ago
It's better than what Google offers now, but still worse than Yandex.