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>Yandex set as default search provider for the Turkish locale Interesting. Looks like Putin's relationship with Erdogan gets cozier all the time. Yandex has a
by drzaiusapelord 12y ago
>Yandex set as default search provider for the Turkish locale
Interesting. Looks like Putin's relationship with Erdogan gets cozier all the time. Yandex has a very strong connection to Russian intelligence services:
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-13274443 http://www.bbc.com/news/business-13274443
- k__ 12y agoThis may be, but what has it to do with Firefox? Doesn't Mozilla decides for itself, which default it sets?
- walterbell 12y agoIs Yandex paying Mozilla to be the default for Turkey?
- dublinben 12y agoThat's usually how these deals come about. No figures were revealed in the press release, but it should eventually become public in their yearly IRS filing.
- gkya 12y agoWell, probably. Yandex has been active in the market here in Turkey, offering its services including a map with street views. They also put up ads on TV and billboards.
- ldng 12y agoHum, never though of it this way. It also make business sence since Yandex strength is probably the handling of complex language in information retrieval. I always though the angle was to then address middle-east market with better indexing/search of Arabic content. Now, it's not impossible there is a political angle to it.
- isxek 12y agoDoesn't DuckDuckGo use Yandex's search results?