What would be a good EU alternative?
Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 11 months ago
These numbers underline the current trend to choose European services instead of American ones, which followed the trend to deGoogle.
[the chart shows stats for American Google, American Bing, Russian Yandex, American Yahoo!, American DuckDuckGo, and Other]
illi@lemm.ee 11 months ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Russian Yandex
Exceptionally good at finding torrent sites and other piracy outlets, because they aren’t working hand-in-glove with American broadcasters to censor and shadowban these links. Google, Bing, DDG, and the other American mainline search sites all focus on feeding end-users into a discrete set of Web2 mega-site sponsors. Yandex uses the older web crawlers and indexing tools, so it gives more honest (abet fuzzier and less reliable) results. And since nobody really gives a shit about Yandex, the efforts to game its algorithm have been comparatively minimal.
Yandex also has the benefit of being relatively English-friendly, while other popular non-English search sites like Baidu, Qwant, and Naver don’t cater too quite so freely.
Pirata@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Who still uses search engines to find torrent, though?
dan@upvote.au 11 months ago
It’s been common ever since magnet links were created, since you can post a magnet link anywhere (even in a plain text file) rather than having to upload a .torrent file somewhere like in the old days.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sites periodically get taken down or rendered less than useful. Especially for live streaming.
Yandex was invaluable when I was looking for Olympics streams, for instance.
toofpic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And they have really good products - the Navigator is great, and Yandex Music was better than Spotify (until the war started and a lot of labels/artists disappeared).
I’m not using their products now as I don’t want to feed the government, but they do(did?) some great stuff.
JuvenoiaAgent@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yeah, that statement wasn’t supported by the data at all. It seemed to only be included as a way to link to their other articles about European alternatives and de-Googling.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 months ago
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 11 months ago
the discussion is about search engines, not browsers.