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One possibility "Russian pride". That might be wrong guess but there lot of things Russian simply to have something "Made in Russia" (e.g. yandex search itself)
by daliusd 14y ago
One possibility "Russian pride". That might be wrong guess but there lot of things Russian simply to have something "Made in Russia" (e.g. yandex search itself).
- dchest 14y agoYandex search launched in 1997, a year before Google. It was the only search engine that could understand Russian morphology.
- dschiptsov 14y agodo you remember altavista.digital.com?)
- dchest 14y agoYes, I remember that it was almost impossible to find anything with it in Russian.
- dschiptsov 14y agoWhy it shall be otherwise, especially with 4 different Cyrillic encodings and size of .ru segment these days?
- mitjak 14y agoIt was also very good! I much preferred its results to Rambler which was popular at the time (and the developer behind Rambler wrote ngnix, afair).
- daliusd 14y agoThat's OK. There were many engines before Google that were forgotten. It is completely possible that Yandex search for average Russian is better than Google but my impression is that it is not (my impression might be wrong). I know that there are some services that Yandex does better than Google in Russia.
- dchest 14y agoI don't get your point. Are you suggesting that they should had shut down the company once Google appeared, and the reason they didn't is "Russian pride"? WTF?
- daliusd 14y agoNo. I'm saying that Russian market has chosen solution that's not necessary is the best one. Again, maybe I'm wrong.