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>Yandex predates Google.

Yandex - founded in 2000. Google - founded in 1998.

Predates for sure.

Yandex as a search engine was publicly opened in 1997 by a company called CompTek. In 2000 they split into a separate legal body.

Should we count early Page & Brin efforts then?

If they used same brand and domain name, then IMO we should. Did they?