[lambdadmitry]

It's interesting how diligently they wiped our any and all mentions of Yandex from their website, to the extent that Google struggles to find meaningful mentions apart from a few exceptions like [1]. Quite peculiar considering that just two years ago, according to that presentation, they were still considering themselves a Yandex project, even the link in that tweet is https://clickhouse.yandex .

For those unaware, Yandex is a Russian internet megacorp, think Google but in cahoots with the authoritarian government: cherrypicked news coverage friendly to the government, effectively a monopoly across multiple verticals (eg they bought out Uber in Russia), etc. In 2020, the year that deck seems to be from, they were already censoring their news feed [2] and tweaking search ranking to promote pro-government results [3] for years.

[1]: https://presentations.clickhouse.com/meetup40/introduction/

[2]: https://meduza.io/feature/2022/05/05/my-zamuchilis-borotsya in Russian, but google translate does a reasonable job

[3]: https://www.svoboda.org/a/30580605.html same

[ceejayoz]

> think Google but in cahoots with the authoritarian government

Sure, but the split appears have been very successful in this regard.

https://clickhouse.com/blog/we-stand-with-ukraine

[lambdadmitry]

Yes, it seems the split was triggered by the war, but the censorship/promotion/collaboration with the government [0] were not worth breaking the ties.

A cynical view would be that it's only now that the association became bad for business.

[0]: By the way, Yandex was showing Crimea as unqualifiedly Russian territory since 2014, until the war, when they just removed borders between countries completely

Edit: qualified the remark

[kgeist]

>By the way, Yandex was showing Crimea as unqualifiedly Russian territory since 2014

Google and Apple used to show it as part of Russia to Russian users as well.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2019/11/27/apple...