• blobjim [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Yandex isn't ususlly gonna have better results. The overwhelming majority of English language stuff is written from a ruling class perspective. That's not gonna change because you use a non-western search engine, although the ranking algorithm might be less sus. But Yandex is definitely way less useful for most Wnglish language stuff. I do try to use it sometimes.

    • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      11 months ago

      what i meant is that there is some blatant censorship on Google search. Anything related to Russia-Ukraine war for example returns western propaganda outlets. Yandex is more balanced.

      also great for piracy and as other commenter mentioned, porn.

      • ChapoKrautHaus [none/use name]
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        11 months ago

        Anything related to Russia-Ukraine war for example returns western propaganda outlets.

        It's completely insane. I tried searching "Genocidin Biden" like 4 days ago and only got some White House BS about how Genocide Joe is like... well, totally against genocide.

        Now at least our this great term has been picked up by the bigger meme sites and they can't hide it anymore.

        also great for piracy and as other commenter mentioned, porn.

        Can you elaborate a little - are we talking like OCH sites? Torrents?

        • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          11 months ago

          yea yandex shows torrent sites which google censors. search "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse torrent" and you will see basically no results because of dmca removals. Search on yandex and youll see results from rutracker, rutor etc