• orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
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    21 days ago

    Yandex is just web crawlers like the ones Google and many other companies have. Perhaps that server housed their bot farm shit too but who knows. The drop in Yandex crawling is proven with data, but the rest of this is just speculation and assumptions based on perception. It’s anecdotal.

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      Yandex is basically Russian Google. They do everything Google does I’m pretty sure (except phones. They did try to make phones though), including but not limited to AI, web crawling, the cloud, delivery, smart home, and even payments