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Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses
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Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses
#32More like Alphabet selling off its Google and downscaling two orders of magnitude. Don't think it will get the cash, it probably has obligations for almost every cent, so this would be a virtual deal mostly.
It has nothing to do with google and alphabet. Apart from being a good search engine and a competitor within the same space.
Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses
#33>(Russian Google) Are there people here who don't know Yandex? Genuinely curious, if you didn't know what it is I'd like to hear from you.
This community's favorite thing is to complain about something that's ill defined. A post about BGP without saying it's the border gateway protocol will have its comments go off on a stupid tangent of if an HN reader should be expected to know what BGP is. (seriously people, go Google the term and don't demand everyone spoon-feed your intellectual midgetry!) Thus, an explanation that Yandex is Russian Google is to tr…
I don't think it's a good explanation. If I had no idea what Yandex is, the title would make me think it is a Google subsidiary to evade sanctions or something.
Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses
#34Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses
#35More like Alphabet selling off its Google and downscaling two orders of magnitude. Don't think it will get the cash, it probably has obligations for almost every cent, so this would be a virtual deal mostly.
It has nothing to do with google and alphabet. Apart from being a good search engine and a competitor within the same space.
OP is describing it as an analogy of what the equivalent action by Alphabet would be and it’s pretty accurate - Yandex search remains in Moscow while the rest of Yandex operations (eg cloud) remains in the EU.
Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses
#36More like Alphabet selling off its Google and downscaling two orders of magnitude. Don't think it will get the cash, it probably has obligations for almost every cent, so this would be a virtual deal mostly.
It has nothing to do with google and alphabet. Apart from being a good search engine and a competitor within the same space.
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Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses
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Weird accounting tricks in Russia include "the new nobility" making you offers that you cannot refuse. This is a country in which the FSB (equivalent of the FBI) is running their own protection rackets, even on a small scale of a local shop. Property law works very differently over there, which is to say it doesn't quite exist.
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Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Yandex" is used everywhere AFAIK. I (in NZ) have used their search-by-image, which sometimes finds things no other image search seems to be able to.
But also can find by image likeness which allows you to find where an image is coming from. Google images used to do that but now they merely analyse the image and search for what they think is the textual description of the image.
Exactly. Tineye is my go-to for searching by image, Yandex and Bing are backups, and Google can often still be convinced to by using "search by image" extensions or the "Find image source" button in Google Lens, but it's more friction so I don't usually bother any more.
Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Weird accounting tricks in Russia include "the new nobility" making you offers that you cannot refuse. This is a country in which the FSB (equivalent of the FBI) is running their own protection rackets, even on a small scale of a local shop. Property law works very differently over there, which is to say it doesn't quite exist.
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Ah yes, just like in Russia we all know someone who was put in the trunk of a car by the FBI and driven around the forest just because they didn't want to pay up to the local director and his network of cronies. Or we all know of a prominent local case of a murderer or rapist that was released from prison (without any legal basis), then went on to fight a war for 6 months, then came back to our city with new military experience, now knowing how to handle rifles, grenades and man portable rocket launchers, and with severe PTSD.
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Re: Yandex to divest its Russia-based businesses
#40>(Russian Google) Are there people here who don't know Yandex? Genuinely curious, if you didn't know what it is I'd like to hear from you.
You're over-estimating how many people actually "surf" the net. I'd wager most of HN knows Yandex, but you're average, non-tech industry, person in NA has essentially no need or situation when they would run into Yandex (aside from streaming, even then they probably aren't explicitly going to the yandex url). You would see the same case for a Chinese search engine. People in general spend a remarkable amount of time…
>but you're average, non-tech industry, person in NA has essentially no need or situation when they would run into Yandex
They have the most popular reverse image search tool now that Google got rid of theirs