"I guess my point is the current situation, basically 2 companies controlling so much traffic, seems, well, bad for small business in this country"
Why "in this country"? Isn't it a problem for the entrepreneurs in the rest of the world too?
Why "in this country"? Isn't it a problem for the entrepreneurs in the rest of the world too?
Few people in Russia use Google for Russian language searches, this is because Google is not as good at declining Russian nouns and conjugating Russian verbs. Yandex gives more results of a higher quality for certain searches.
That has no bearing on whether Chinese businesses care. Obviously there are tons of Chinese businesses that sell outside China, including retail businesses, and their customers DO use Google.
Same for the Russian case.
This is not true, Google has >20% share in Russia iirc
So a reasonable explanation is that Russians are increasingly using Google's apps: gmail, google calendar, the google now launcher; which probably has something to do with the fact that these apps come preinstalled on their phones. Not necessarily that they prefer Google for searching for Russian-language websites.