1. How did this hit the top posts?
2. The website is very marketing and confusing.
3. What is Yandex, that is what I want to know the first few seconds when I view their website. It looks as if I am buying a no-man island somewhere.
1. people voted up, better one of these than the other 20 or something posts about the FBI or NSA populating the top posts.
Anyway, Yandex is the Russian Google. Like Seznam in Czech Republic. And Naver in South Korea.
You're not viewing their “website”, you're viewing a page dedicated to their new technology that they will incorporate into their search. If don't know what Yandex is, why don't you just visit yandex.com?
how can you not be aware of Yandex?
Perhaps he is not a web oriented professional, or he does not give a shit about the rest of the world and ignores everything outside the anglobubble.
Why would anyone be aware of Yandex unless they live in Russia? Even here, I mostly use Google.
I'm personally aware of Yandex because they have one of the most aggressive search crawlers on the entire internet, judging from our Apache logs.
Well, very few members of HN community actually uses Sina Weibo, but we're aware of it, aren't we?