Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!

noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• JuvenoiaAgent@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Pirata@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Who still uses search engines to find torrent, though?

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the discussion is about search engines, not browsers.

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• illi@lemm.ee ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What would be a good EU alternative?

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  • letzlo@feddit.nl ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Qwant or Ecosia.

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    • illi@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks!

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