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Yandex is also pretty good, they have their own index and it's a lot better than Google on political stuff (as long as the news isn't too recent) and any sort o
by guywithahat 2y ago
Yandex is also pretty good, they have their own index and it's a lot better than Google on political stuff (as long as the news isn't too recent) and any sort of torrent site.
- fifilura 2y agoEuropeans will not start using a Muscovite search engine. (Edit: R -> Muscovite)
- fakedang 2y agoIs there a difference anyways between Russian and Muscovite? After all, Muscovites imposed their culture forcefully all over Russia as much as they could.
- fifilura 2y agoNot all of Russia. And I think it is a reminder to the people of Dagestan, Buratia, Altai, Bashkortorstan etc that they allow themselves to be taken advantage of and killed by a tribesman from the plains.
- paganel 2y agoThe reactionary spirit among the Western technical elites never ceases to amaze me, it shouldn't by this point, but it still does.
- fifilura 2y agoYou may be right? It was written in anger.
- rrr_oh_man 2y agoIt takes a lot to admit one's missteps! Appreciate the gesture, as an innocent byreader
- wqaatwt 2y agoIt still seems very moderate compared to the fascist imperialist spirit amongst the elite (and majority of the overall population) of that other country..
- paganel 2y ago[flagged]
- fifilura 2y agoHm, that seems like a false dichtonomy. Why could it not be both?
- paganel 2y ago[flagged]
- wqaatwt 2y agoDo you lack the general sense of time and can’t tell if we’re living in the 1940s or 2020s? Surely Russia can’t be imperialist wither because they defeated Napoleon back in 1813? (your “argument” makes about as much sense).
- riffraff 2y agothe Brits defeated Napoleon, and that's why there never was a British empire.
- wqaatwt 2y agoWell of course. They saved Europe from tyranny. It would be the definition of historical revisionism to claim they could do anything wrong after that. Also I wouldn’t say that Waterloo was more important than Leipzig or Napoleon’s trip to Moscow.
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- wave-function 2y agoThis is precisely why I lost all respect for the West in the last couple of years and am now cheering on Putin's propaganda that is deepening divisions in your own societies. It's obvious you'd like nothing more than to carve up our country and destroy our culture — which the people of Siberia, Caucasus, and all other regions have significantly contributed to. But you know fuck all about that because your knowledge of Russia is based on news headlines. Now I really hope he's successful, so this will come back at you.
- ipaddr 2y agoYou held respect previously and this is what caused you to lose it? Or you never held respect and use whatever to feed you?
- ggm 2y agoDidn't Yandex RU divest and its now EU owned in Europe? could be a thin shell of course.
- alapshin 2y agoNo. Original owner of Yandex (Arkady Volozh) sold Yandex to a group of Russian investors (approved by the government) and left with small number of assets in a form of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebius_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebius_Group Everything else that people usually associate with Yandex (search, mail, taxi, marketplace etc.) remains under Russian ownership.
- ggm 2y agoThanks for the correction.
- that_lurker 2y agoKagi is using it for image search and a lot of people do use Kagi
- crossroadsguy 2y agoI do hope you realise that there’s subjective and then there’s “‘a lot’ of people use Kagi” subjective :)
- that_lurker 2y agoThat I do. I should have writen that after my morning coffee.
- wave-function 2y ago[flagged]
- fifilura 2y agoYeah well, I can't edit or delete the comment now unfortunately, and seems like i can't flag my own comment. There are certainly things to discuss here, but not the right forum.
- silversmith 2y agoBased on what's being commented here - some absolutely will. And sitting on the eastern border of EU, that truly scares me.
- guappa 2y ago[flagged]
- notpushkin 2y agoYeah, USSR focused on terrorizing their own people instead.
- guappa 2y agoNon sequitur
- silversmith 2y ago"Their own" in the same way as people of India were English.
- solarkraft 2y agoI don’t think anyone in their right mind is advocating severing ties with the USA to get closer to Russia.
- kindeyoowee 2y ago[dead]
- paganel 2y agoThat means I’m nuts, or what? The OP was right, Yandex is way better compared to Google when searching for politically sensitive stuff, and they don’t seem to have that much of recency bias as the Google search index has, which I found to be a good thing, but on the whole Google’s search is still slightly better, I would say. More convenient, at least, thanks to the deep integration within Chrome.
- cookiemonsieur 2y agoBingo ! Anything considered too politically sensitive in the west (you know what I'm talking about) can easily be researched on Yandex. Wanna find dirt about the west ? Use Yandex. Wanna find dirt about the kremlin ? Use Google/Bing/Whatever.
- timeon 2y ago> you know what I'm talking about Can you be more specific?
- guywithahat 2y ago(I’m not the guy you replied to) but Google has like 8 ad-friendly approved sources you may get news from, which are all anti-Trump sources. It can be impossible to find news stories unfavorable to democrats without appending the name of conservative outlets on the end.
- throwawayq3423 2y ago> Anything considered too politically sensitive in the west (you know what I'm talking about) Actually I don't. Can you give an example of something censored by Google in the west the same way Russia openly censors it's anti-war voices domestically? https://www.reuters.com/technology/yandex-warns-russian-users-unreliable-information-online-after-moscow-threatens-2022-02-25/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/yandex-warns-russian-user... https://dfrlab.org/2022/03/31/yandex-suppresses-ukraine-war-information-for-russian-internet-users/ https://dfrlab.org/2022/03/31/yandex-suppresses-ukraine-war-...
- kome 2y agoyandex is very very good. i wonder why is not used more.
- guywithahat 2y agoThere are certainly some areas where it's not as strong, and I find the anti-bot filter is exceptionally aggressive. That said it does feel like one of the best alternatives. Google has gotten so aggressive about pushing ads or ad-friendly sources it can be impossible to find the content I'm looking for