>Quite good for finding torrents.

That's because there's no DMCA law there and they're not taking down thousands upon thousands of pages like Google is forced to do every day. [1]

[1] https://www.lumendatabase.org/

I used to be able to find MP3s with Google, until one day it simply stopped working. Then I moved to Baidu, which worked for a while. I now use DDG to find movies, and yet looks like the curtain may be closing on that one too.

I fear it might only be a matter of time before Yandex stops working too.

Russian government has always appreciated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat so be careful what you search for.

I love how we have to preface our approval of something foreign with "now I'm not a Nazi, but...'

why would you look for torrents in search engine? you will anyway find most of them dead

you are much better off with Knaben on EU domain, same results can be achieved with add-ons in qbit, then there are special software not worth my time (Jackett)

but I agree I find myself using yandex much more nowadays as alternative