You sound really mad that people would criticize Russia.
I mean by all means, stick with Google and its ever-declining search quality and ever-expanding monopoly power while it builds AI tools for Israel to automate the slaughter of civilians, instead of a search engine startup that... has some minor partnership with another search engine that is located in a country where you don't like its government?
You know a lot about what I'm doing.
> Is Yandex an arm of Russian intelligence? Any more than Google and Bing are arms of US surveillance?
Yes.
Russia is a dictatorship at war with Ukraine and the West by their own statements and actions. The idea they are leveraging tech companies for this purpose is ludicrous.
Is Yandex == Russia?
Is West == unquestionably good?
Do you have the same stance on Israel?
Yandex is the Russian government, yes. It didn't used to be but it is now.