Subscribe RSSSatisfactory opportunity to use Google Translate on the Russian release, huh?
So what’s this mean for the rest of us? Too early to tell but apparently Yandex is doing a kind job out of the gate. I used it to do some basic searches on myself because I figured if there is information in there about me then they are going pretty deep into the web already
. Honestly, the results were very decent as compared to the results I am accustomed to from the big three (Google, Yahoo, bing).
Several people have chimed in saying that this appliance has some age on it and is a serious player, which is taking on Google and gaining market share. Others give kudos to relatively spam free results for some extreme spam keywords that, you can guess, are the ‘gold standard’ of spam phrases (Viagra).
Of practice depending on the products you sell and whether Russia and its cousins are viable markets for your products will play a role in unbiased how much this news impacts anyone. While Russia doesn’t appear to have the same censorship concerns that China does it will be interesting to to as the battle between Google and engines like Yandex heats up for supremacy in another large global market.
