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I have an android phone, they already have my data.
So have I, but they don't have any of my data.
It's funny. Recently I looked into what Google is doing (see at https://blog.miloslavhomer.cz/how-google-sees-your-site/ ). It's a lot of work to get the data to build an index. Why would they give it to everyone for free?
Similarly, Bell Labs was kind of required to release transistor for anyone to license - it was a part of social contract that they were allowed to maintain their monopoly in exchange for releasing certain parts of technology.
Alternatively, they could be split up and their indexing division made an independent company selling to anyone on a free market.
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Have you tried Yandex and evaluated the quality of its results, or do you just feel obligated to continuously put it down because it's russian?
What is your experience with it?
Edit: The best search for my purposes historically has been on Pinterest. Unfortunately, not anymore. I normally search for visual artifacts (photos, art, schematics, etc), out of all search engines Google is still the only one that is somewhat functional for me in this regard.
I tried DDG, Kagi, Yandex. None of them worked for me.
As much as I am sad that Google died like 15 years ago, I am past the mourning phase. That was when they announced they were shifting from returning websites to "returning answers" and it has been a long slide into shittification I do enjoy using their free AI. 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 cor…
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Have you tried Yandex and evaluated the quality of its results, or do you just feel obligated to continuously put it down because it's russian?
I turn it down straight away for being Russian and I'm suspicious of anyone that mentions it positively. Russia is in a cold war with democracies in general and a hot war with Ukraine. It has an autocratic dictator as leader and state control of media. It has a well documented propaganda campaign with the goal of destabilising other countries through agitation. We even know the address of the building in Saint Peters…
Trade war with half the planet, hot war with Iran. Autocratic dictator as leader and complicit media. Well documented propaganda campaign and history of destabilising countries around the world. Known to compel tech companies to spy on foreign citizens...
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Have you tried Yandex and evaluated the quality of its results, or do you just feel obligated to continuously put it down because it's russian?
I turn it down straight away for being Russian and I'm suspicious of anyone that mentions it positively. Russia is in a cold war with democracies in general and a hot war with Ukraine. It has an autocratic dictator as leader and state control of media. It has a well documented propaganda campaign with the goal of destabilising other countries through agitation. We even know the address of the building in Saint Peters…