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by chrisandchris 7 days ago
Is it? I can't find an official source that supports that claim. Also, Yandex disinvested from Russia and split the non-Russian business into a different company. So is it Yandex or "Yandex (copy)"?

I'm not trying to defend / take a position. I just find it difficult to reason without having an official (up-to-date) source.
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walrus01 7 days ago
Trying to say that Yandex isn't a Russian company is preposterous. It's the largest search engine in Russia and runs tons of other online services that are analogous to social media and cloud things in the English and Western European language speaking world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex

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bjord 7 days ago
they're conflating yandex with the international entity that sold it off to russian investors (now known as "nebius group"). the entire basis of the argument is wrong.
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ShinyLeftPad 7 days ago
It is https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...
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bjord 7 days ago
no it didn't. the international entity sold off the vast majority of yandex businesses and assets to russian investors, then rebranded to "nebius group". that is to say that the yandex index/api used by kagi is wholly russian-owned and has essentially doubled down on russia/its allies.

if you're curious, the dominant business retained by the international entity was their data center stuff (though yandex still operates its own cloud business in russia/elsewhere).

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dismantlethesun 7 days ago
The non-Russian portion of the company doesn't include the search engine technology.
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