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I just read that the search engine Yandex has a world market share of 2,8 % and Bing has 2,5 %. Baidu is the second biggest search engine with 8,2 % but that is still more of a local Chinese thing. And Yahoo has 4.9 %.

So I checked out Yandex.com.and it is quite good. I can understand that it has a market share of over 60% in Russia and keeps Google behind.

And it even is a slightly better than duckduckgo.com too, because the image search is better.

I have not checked if yandex has privacy issues - but as a search engine it holds water.

I think I'll try some other search engines. Google was good, once. Now, all the paid-for ads and suggestions are just making it irritating. Is Yandex.com related to yandex.ru, where our Russian Linux benefactors live? I see Yandex looks a lot like Google. It has similar filters such as I like to use when looking for images to be used in an endearingly clever fashion. Very responsive, ATM. I don't see an addon for Firefox/Seamonkey to make it my default search engine but I will give it a whirl.

I found there is Mycroft Project where I searched for yandex.com and it gave me the url of a plugin by strel. Thank you, strel.

Here are the privacy rules:
http://legal.yandex.com/confidential/

And they pretty much suck

Oh well nothing seems to beat duckduckgo in that area.

Looks like they also have trading issues (Jan. 7, 2013).

Yes Antitrust pretty much spells corruption - sadly a long and distinguished Russian tradition....

Sadly also an Amerikan one...