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Yandex is incredible for things that Google and Bing serves up useless spam for. If you search “watch $MOVIE free” on google you’re going to get netflix, Hulu,
by transcriptase 3y ago
Yandex is incredible for things that Google and Bing serves up useless spam for.
If you search “watch $MOVIE free” on google you’re going to get netflix, Hulu, prime, Disney etc as the first results regardless of whether those sites even have it in their library. The remaining links are SEO spam that also don’t have it but pretend they do, because the sites that actually do have all been struck or filtered.
Yandex on the other hand… the first result is generally exactly what you wanted in 720 or 1080 with no BS.
I do miss when google had a little footer that said “click here to view URLs that were removed due to copyright takedown requests”.
Edit: And I do pay for all of those streaming services and more, but in Canada if a franchise has 5 movies it’s not unheard of to have #1 on Netflix, #2 on Paramount, #3 on no service available here, and #4 and #5 on Disney or Crave. It’s the same with seasons of TV series: exhausting.
- N3cr0ph4g1st 3y agoHow does it compare to searx.be?
- bandie91 3y agosearx is a search engine aggregator. searx.be is in instance of it and as i can see the only default general search engine which is on on this instance is google.
- Pannoniae 3y agoYandex Translate is also much better for many languages, especially for eastern ones. And viewing words and their synonyms individually is a huge godsend if you are looking at slang.
- anonimo37 3y agoI just tried out Yandex Translate on a few words. My only criticism is I find the audio playback too fast. Google Translate plays the audio at a slower rate which I find easier for learning the pronunciation of foreign words.
- circuit10 3y agoDid they remove that footer? If so it must have been recent because I remember using it semi-recently
- whstl 3y agoFor me, searching "Watch Oppenheimer Free" on Google returns mostly malware and fake media-purchase websites (that will probably try to steal my credit card), mixed with SEO spam about "how and why it's not available on Netflix or Hulu... yet". To me that's significantly worse than showing no results.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoThat's what I just searched and was able to watch Oppenheimer. The point isn't that it's crummy, the point is that Google or Bing are not answering your query or are answering with junk.
- hulitu 3y agoThis is a known problem since some years. The main problem is that there are no free alternatives. And paying for 2 searches a week makes no sense.
- heavyset_go 3y agoIt's cool, while you waste time wading through a sea of SEO spam, you'll look at plenty of ads.
- bombcar 3y agoFor all the stupid things Google provides a ready answer for, their inability to answer “when does this come available and how” is annoying.
- gonzo41 3y agoIt's funny that there isn't someone just maintaining a community google sheets doc that handles, that then the search can index.
- bombcar 3y agoThere are various sites that do it (with more or less SEO garbage and fake answers, mind you) - but it’s surprisingly hard to find something definite. You’d think some group of obsessives on some forum somewhere would be compiling a database.
- vasco 3y agoI still get it: "In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 3 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read more about the request at LumenDatabase.org. In response to a complaint that we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at LumenDatabase.org." If you go to that service they'll require an email but you can use a discardable one and still be anonymous to get the original blocked URLs. I actually still use this for torrent searches sometimes, it just takes a few more clicks.
- midoridensha 3y agoWhat's stopping them from showing these things in countries outside the US? Not all of us live in the US.
- dmoy 3y agoI'm not a copyright lawyer, but I assume it's some result of US copyright law, or international copyright treaties like Bern
- codetrotter 3y agoI remember seeing that footer before. I live in Europe and am not using a VPN. It’s been a few years since last time I saw it though. But that could also be because my searches now are different than they used to be.
- vasco 3y agoI'm outside the US - not sure what you mean.
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- pixl97 3y agoI mean, really any site I visit on the internet I assume is one mistake away from trying to exploit by computer. I don't trust the links off Google either, they are pretty apt to serve malware laden crap. Especially when you search up 'free' anything.
- lmm 3y agoGoogle and Bing cooperate with various governments to a lesser or greater extent; we also know that the NSA subverted Google's internal networks for months or years (allegedly without their cooperation, but given the national security letter system, who knows). Realistically anyone could be placing malware anywhere and the right defenses are an up-to-date browser and some level of common sense. But if we're going to start worrying about state actors, I think the odds of getting renditioned by the NSA/CIA are much higher than by "Russia", even if only because Russia is busy with a lot of other stuff at the moment.
- mschuster91 3y ago> But if we're going to start worrying about state actors, I think the odds of getting renditioned by the NSA/CIA are much higher than by "Russia", even if only because Russia is busy with a lot of other stuff at the moment. Renditions are one thing, that's bordering on conspiracy peddling, but using computers from people all over the world to do your bidding in a botnet? That's been a thing for many years now. I remember this already being a huge issue 15 years ago, with people taking cracks of popular software, adding a piece of malware to the crack, uploading the malware-laced package to torrent trackers and manipulating UL/DL stats to make people believe their package was the authentic one. If I were in an army and tasked to deal with cyberwar efforts, the first thing I'd do was to set up a botnet and let it run in stealth mode, so that I'd have the resources for massive strikes ready at a moment's notice. Basically the cheater way to win in Plague Inc - achieve worldwide distribution, hide away and then ramp up all of a sudden to overwhelm the opponent.
- trynumber9 3y agoAnd Yandex reverse image search isn't neutered for copyright reasons either. It almost seems like Google of yesteryear, but with far more Russian language results.
- runlevel1 3y agoGoogle and Bing both changed their emphasis to finding things within an image rather than trying to find similar images. But one is not a substitute for the other. Google Lens and whatever Bing calls their equivalent almost never find what I'm looking for. They barely function as a reverse image search anymore, and that's a real shame.
- arthur_sav 3y agoI hadn't even considered using Yandex. Tried switching from Google to Bing this year but results are not much better - half of Google's results are either ads or irrelevant "safe" results.
- siva7 3y agoYandex.ru seems to be the real deal, uncensored internet (except anything not politically compliant with russia) while yandex.com doesn’t give me that useful results for the movie query. Google.com feels so censored and crippled now.
- Physkal 3y agoI wonder if yandex.com has more restrictions for US compliance?
- transcriptase 3y agoThat's an interesting possibility. It certainly seems uncensored from Canada!
- octacat 3y agoAnd it still has limited image search results. But much much longer, comparing to google. What's happened with infinite image search results recently?
- barrysteve 3y agoGoogle.com search results looks like the TV shopping channel. Youtube looks like very long infomercials. Finding truth and not 'recommendations' is difficult.
- RGBCube 3y agoLooks to be the same, maybe it's because of your ip location? I'm in Turkey and I get everything.
- renegade-otter 3y agoThat's ironic because Oppenheimer is banned in Russia. https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-barbie-oppenheimer-license-davankov/32572949.html https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-barbie-oppenheimer-license-da...
- pjc50 3y agoPeople spill a lot of characters on here about political censorship while ignoring that the existing Internet "speech" control infrastructure overwhelmingly deals in (a) copyright infringement and (b) CSAM. Those get slapped down everywhere by almost everybody.
- master-lincoln 3y agoSure? I would assume many of the world's countries do not care about copyright infringements on the internet. Also much of the existing speech control infrastructure is used to censor what people can see or say outside of copyright and CSAM (see China, Iran, Myanmar, UAE, Belarus, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, Uzbekistan, ...)
- martindbp 3y agoI know this is old news by now, but Google really is becoming useless. I wonder, are they even aware internally that this is happening or are they so lost in their "Google is awesome" bubble that they have no chance of fixing it in time?