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Can you share more about employees who support Russian invasion of Ukraine?

The Yandex seems to be using index just like index from other providers? It's not some special relationship, it's just like they pay Microsoft or Google. Both Microsoft and Google are happy military contractors so to me that is as bad as paying russian company.

It's shit but i need search. Seems like there are no "good guy" indexes?

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The thing with Yandex is that it's required by Russian law to not include websites which are blocked in Russia (and that's many thousands of websites: https://github.com/zapret-info/z-i). But it's not clear what does it mean for international users - I doubt it outright doesn't include bbc.com or facebook.com for them, but what if it pessimizes those websites somehow? How would anyone detect that?

This user has a "staff" badge and is credited a lot in changelogs.

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If the company truly had best search results in mind, they would allow an opt-out for the questionable indexes, instead they doubled down and lost all respect and more importantly trust in my eyes.

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