Comment by sharpshadow
5 days ago
That’s how I feel about Yandex lately. When it’s a struggle to find something on the common search engines, Yandex works like magic.
It’s not that Yandex is particularly better in any way, it just chooses to not filter the content one is looking for.
According to wikipedia.
Headquarters: Moscow, Russia
Genuine question, what is the concern about a Russian search engine?
Every argument I can think of is just worse with Google (spying, propaganda, censorship, security etc).
It depends on the region.
My neibhours never heard about the need to “denazify” us from Google’s home government.
War is much much worse than google. (Btw. Kagi is nice alternative, where you are the customer, not the product)
> what is the concern
Additional inteligence channel for their three letter agencies.
When somebody asks Yandex for data, decision making is done in such environment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_notable...
(such environment also suggests how accountable are the people requesting said data)
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