Yandex Search

“It's like the only "open" search engine that actively lets you search for pirate content without heavily filtering it.”

“Yandex cares much less about this sort of censorship, at least from what I can tell.”

“the best search engine that doesn't follow American censorship norms”

“It's been apprehended by the government and turned into a key element of its propaganda machine.”

“agreed you get most of organic search results which is what search used to be based on relevancy”

“Yandex also easily finds copyrighted stuff and other various types of wrongthink banned by Google.”

“It has a well documented propaganda campaign with the goal of destabilising other countries through agitation.”

“I’d expect everything that you type into Yandex that can be of use to the Russia will be used by Russia”

“there was a source code leak and you can see some examples there which make the president's image more alluring”

“While they do put either own propaganda, neither Western, nor Ukraininan nor independent media is not hidden from the results”

“The people working at Yandex do not want find themselves dying of a nerve agent or polonium”

“For actual web search I actually like using Yandex. It reminds me of old Google, returning reasonable results and much less "shaping results to please our corpo-political masters".”

“for things even they don't want to show you, there's https://yandex.com”

“Yandex is the only search engine left which still feels like the "old" web.”

“Yandex is a search engine that actually is still useful, unlike all American search engines”

“at some point Facebook/Yandex apps opened localhost sockets for tracking pixel code to connect to”

“one of only three search indexes that aren't corrupted to all hell with business interests”

“The Kremlin-controlled search engine Yandex as a resource for Russia's informational influence in Belarus”

“Yandex results are the most valuable for the type of thing censored in all other search engines.”

“the yandex index/api used by kagi is wholly russian-owned and has essentially doubled down on russia/its allies”

“Russian government owned tech (Yandex) that censors informations about the illegal Ukraine war crimes”

“Yandex pays taxes in Russia. Which is then directly used at their attempted genocide in Ukraine.”

“yandex provides objectively better results for many things than google/ddg/bing”

“Yandex is excellent if you want something that behaves more like a old PageRank version of google for news and historical information”

“If you're looking for anything remotely niche or legally gray, like sports streams or ebooks, you're often better off using Yandex”

“Considering the backers of yandex I wouldn't personally consider it to be politically neutral.”

“It has very good technology behind, though not the trillion dollars of investments Google can afford.”

“Yandex shows you what you searched for, while Google shows you what it thinks you should have searched for.”

“I've heard Yandex results are good, and they often avoid Google bias.”

“one of the best search engines, from a results perspective, is Yandex”

“consistently returning more relevant results than Google for some time already”

“Yandex is honestly your best option for more obscure articles and things censored by Google and the west.”

“If I was looking for something that is against the interests of Russian oligarchs I wouldn't use yandex.”

“its crazy that russian search engine is more "open" compared to US search engine”

“Yandex is a good place to search for things Google has been ordered to not show you.”

“Yandex is the government approved search engine in Russia, which is impossible without the state exerting control over it.”

“Objectively, yandex is a great resource, and Kagi's results would be degraded without it.”

“your search queries are sent to Yandex, which may be a problem if you are pasting sensitive data there”

“just type whatever you're looking for + "torrent" on yandex and you'll hit something relevant very quickly”

“I cannot feel anything but respect to the multi-decade research legacy of the company and their incredible search engine.”