[HN Gopher] 'Russia's Google' exits the country
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       'Russia's Google' exits the country
        
       Author : belter
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2024-07-21 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.tomshardware.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.tomshardware.com)
        
       | jeffrallen wrote:
       | You can take Yandex out of Russia, but you can't take the
       | Russians out of Yandex.
       | 
       | Good luck to ex-Yandex to get any customers, and good luck to
       | those customers who risk letting the GRU take a copy of their
       | data.
        
         | jasonvorhe wrote:
         | You meant to say "to also send a copy to the GRU", right?
        
       | exmadscientist wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | curation wrote:
         | The Yandex translate is excellent - especially for the Georgian
         | language vs Google and others.
        
       | arianvanp wrote:
       | I think the reporting is a bit confusing here.
       | 
       | 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.
        
       | ricardo81 wrote:
       | Yandex (West of the Urals) and Mojeek (UK) are pretty much
       | Europe's independent search engines on any semblance of web
       | scale.
        
         | bediger4000 wrote:
         | What about that Czech language one, seznam.cz?
        
       | 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
       | That's great news for Yandex, I hope they are able to find
       | success. Search needs competition.
        
       | omoikane wrote:
       | The title should simply say "Yandex".
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Actual article:
       | 
       |  _Yandex split finalised as Russian assets sold in $5.4 bln deal_
       | 
       | https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/yandex-nv-finalises-54...
        
       | siva7 wrote:
       | 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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