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'Russia's Google' exits the country
- jeffrallen 2y ago[flagged]
- ZhongXina 2y ago[flagged]
- jasonvorhe 2y agoYou meant to say "to also send a copy to the GRU", right?
- shiroiushi 2y agoSo, it would be a good thing then for westerners to use Yandex as much as possible for things like searching for porn and warez, right? The flood of data will simply hamper anything the GRU is trying to do with it.
- baybal2 2y ago[dead]
- exmadscientist 2y agoIt looks like the search engine and search index remains in Russia? That's an interesting choice. Regardless of how you feel about Russia, having a search index that's not US-controlled (or EU-controlled, not that there are any of those of any real size) is very useful. Yandex has the third(?) largest index of the web proper, and is a great check on the two largest indexes.
- curation 2y agoThe Yandex translate is excellent - especially for the Georgian language vs Google and others.
- dimaaan 2y agoAnd "Search by picture"
- JohnnyLarue 2y agoYeah, Yandex is the only place to go if you want to avoid the overwhelming grip that the west has over every search engine and every vulnerable source of info. I just can't stand their damnable captchas.
- definitelyauser 2y agoStart off by searching for "yx" or "xy". Then do your actual search. If you're going for image search, do the yx/xy text search first, then you go over to images. That'll (for some reason) never give you a captcha.
- arianvanp 2y agoI think the reporting is a bit confusing here. Yandex was a dutch publicly traded company. Yandex name and search engine has been sold to Russian investors and will move to Russia. The Dutch company will remain and will focus on AI instead and rename to Nebius group. So Yandex the (the search engine) enters the country. Not exits.
- nikolay 2y agoIt's very important to twist the news like some terrible things are happening in Russia, when it's quite the opposite.
- EB-Barrington 2y ago[dead]
- stubish 2y agoIs this a modern day nationalization? Essentially forced to sell at a 50% discount. In many ways very similar to what is happening to TikTok with the US. Although, now I think of it, it is just assumed that TikTok will end up under American control? I wonder what would happen if some group like the Saudi Royal Family bought it and moved the global HQ to Dubai?
- protomolecule 2y ago"Is this a modern day nationalization? Essentially forced to sell at a 50% discount." This is "modern day nationalization": "In March 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the G7 countries froze around €260 billion ($280 billion) of the Central Bank of Russia’s reserves held in Western currencies and securities, including €210 billion deposited in Europe, mostly with Belgium’s Euroclear (around €159 billion). The remaining funds are deposited in France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan (although specific values have not been given), the US (around €4.5 billion) and other countries." [0] [0] https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2024-05-24/eus-decision-to-use-profits-generated-frozen-russian-assets https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2024-05-24/eus...
- ricardo81 2y agoYandex (West of the Urals) and Mojeek (UK) are pretty much Europe's independent search engines on any semblance of web scale.
- bediger4000 2y agoWhat about that Czech language one, seznam.cz?
- hulitu 2y agoNever heard about it.
- ricardo81 2y agoI believe they restrict themself to CZ content
- bediger4000 2y agoThey regularly check web servers that I set up. Seem to prefer IPv6 addresses.
- ricardo81 2y agoI had a quick look and see they do index some non-CZ content.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y agoThat's great news for Yandex, I hope they are able to find success. Search needs competition.
- omoikane 2y agoThe title should simply say "Yandex".
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoActual article: Yandex split finalised as Russian assets sold in $5.4 bln deal https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/yandex-nv-finalises-54-bln-deal-sell-russian-businesses-2024-07-15/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/yandex-nv-finalises-54...
- siva7 2y agoSay what you will against russia but their search index is unmatched for finding movie streamz, warez, porn and anything you desire. Google feels very crippled in this regard.
- dimava 2y agoYandex "was never in Russia" to begin with http://blog.micromarketing.ru/advice/9-point-5-rules-fot-it-business-in-russia/ http://blog.micromarketing.ru/advice/9-point-5-rules-fot-it-... (2010) Owning the company through an non-russian layer was a common way of doing IT in '00s After Russia started making "landing" laws this become not a viable option anymore