So, it would be a good thing then for westerners to use Yandex as much as possible for things like searching for porn and warez, right? The flood of data will simply hamper anything the GRU is trying to do with it.
It looks like the search engine and search index remains in Russia? That's an interesting choice.
Regardless of how you feel about Russia, having a search index that's not US-controlled (or EU-controlled, not that there are any of those of any real size) is very useful. Yandex has the third(?) largest index of the web proper, and is a great check on the two largest indexes.
Yeah, Yandex is the only place to go if you want to avoid the overwhelming grip that the west has over every search engine and every vulnerable source of info. I just can't stand their damnable captchas.
Is this a modern day nationalization? Essentially forced to sell at a 50% discount.
In many ways very similar to what is happening to TikTok with the US. Although, now I think of it, it is just assumed that TikTok will end up under American control? I wonder what would happen if some group like the Saudi Royal Family bought it and moved the global HQ to Dubai?
"Is this a modern day nationalization? Essentially forced to sell at a 50% discount."
This is "modern day nationalization": "In March 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the G7 countries froze around €260 billion ($280 billion) of the Central Bank of Russia’s reserves held in Western currencies and securities, including €210 billion deposited in Europe, mostly with Belgium’s Euroclear (around €159 billion). The remaining funds are deposited in France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan (although specific values have not been given), the US (around €4.5 billion) and other countries." [0]
Say what you will against russia but their search index is unmatched for finding movie streamz, warez, porn and anything you desire. Google feels very crippled in this regard.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 77.2 ms ] threadRegardless of how you feel about Russia, having a search index that's not US-controlled (or EU-controlled, not that there are any of those of any real size) is very useful. Yandex has the third(?) largest index of the web proper, and is a great check on the two largest indexes.
Then do your actual search.
If you're going for image search, do the yx/xy text search first, then you go over to images.
That'll (for some reason) never give you a captcha.
Yandex was a dutch publicly traded company. Yandex name and search engine has been sold to Russian investors and will move to Russia.
The Dutch company will remain and will focus on AI instead and rename to Nebius group.
So Yandex the (the search engine) enters the country. Not exits.
In many ways very similar to what is happening to TikTok with the US. Although, now I think of it, it is just assumed that TikTok will end up under American control? I wonder what would happen if some group like the Saudi Royal Family bought it and moved the global HQ to Dubai?
This is "modern day nationalization": "In March 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the G7 countries froze around €260 billion ($280 billion) of the Central Bank of Russia’s reserves held in Western currencies and securities, including €210 billion deposited in Europe, mostly with Belgium’s Euroclear (around €159 billion). The remaining funds are deposited in France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan (although specific values have not been given), the US (around €4.5 billion) and other countries." [0]
[0] https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2024-05-24/eus...
Yandex split finalised as Russian assets sold in $5.4 bln deal
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/yandex-nv-finalises-54...
http://blog.micromarketing.ru/advice/9-point-5-rules-fot-it-... (2010)
Owning the company through an non-russian layer was a common way of doing IT in '00s
After Russia started making "landing" laws this become not a viable option anymore