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That is not longer enough now it must include "Election Interference", you fucking nobodies who think you have the right to discuss politics publicly, you are all Russian bots when you disagree with the establishment, the only proof they need a https://mail.yandex.com/ account, just send one email and you are marked for life as a Russian Robot, in fact the most sound reason to have a Yandex email account in the first place, who doesn't want to be falsely branded as a Russian Robot, libel laws are much more powerful in some locales than others.

Don't get me wrong. I think Google should fry if they're blocking competing search engines from their browser. But:

Google also owns duck.com and points it directly at Google search, which consistently confuses DuckDuckGo users.

They wouldn't be so easily confused if the DuckDuckGo landing page didn't look nearly identical to Google's landing page. Contrast to Bing, Yahoo, Ask, Startpage, Qwant, Yandex (#1 in Russia), Naver (#1 in South Korea). The only other major search engine which makes the same mistake of copying Google too closely is Baidu (#1 in China).

Because there's just so many ways to visually format a search website.

Google also owns duck.com and points it directly at Google search, which consistently confuses DuckDuckGo users.

They wouldn't be so easily confused if the DuckDuckGo landing page didn't look nearly identical to Google's landing page. Contrast to Bing, Yahoo, Ask, Startpage, Qwant, Yandex (#1 in Russia), Naver (#1 in South Korea). The only other major search engine which makes the same mistake of copying Google too closely is Baidu (#1 in China).

I'll just use Yandex' image search.

Its results are far less censored anyway.

https://yandex.com/images/

What the fuck, seriously what the fuck. You sound like a cultist that has drunk way, way too much google cool aid. Google is basically a web site that searches the internet and nothing more. First they started with do no evil and then the corporates took over and it was do evil all the fucking time. Basically either Google ponies up details or the Russian government kicks them out to favour Russian enterprises competing in the same area. To put it simply https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fuck... or the funnier version https://www.yandex.com/search/....

Google's number one marketing skill is self promotion. Scamming advertisers into believing they need to spend shit tons of money with Google to sell product and all based upon Googles research proving it, yep, uh huh. Google does only one thing well, self promote, sell the ability of Google to sell, reality is every one ignores googles ads, everyone skips youtube ads, google has very little influence in reality and that control, is the control over the people it sells it's marketing lies to, the real suckers spending billions on google ads that lead no where.

Now you have the big shit at alphabet carrying on like they have the actual power, they pretend to for marketing purpose. I can't tell whether the big shit is gas lighting them or he believes his own marketing and hype and sees himself as a internet GOD.

The internet connects people without people the internet is nothing. It is the people that give meaning to the internet. Google is shit, a big marketing scam, that has in the most pathetic cultist way started to believe it owns marketing. When google cuts off people it actually cuts itself out and the more people google isolates the more isolated google becomes. The reality is google has fuck all power and is the people's bitch, now suffering from delusions of grandeur and is going to get a rude awakening.

What if your opinion is considered "Hate Speech" by those that have power? It doesn't matter what they declare hate speech or what your opinion is, if you go to jail for it it's shut down.

Looks like getting arrested for expressing your beliefs in Germany is quite common, especially if it's about migrants or the holocaust.

If you have no biases against a Russian company, I highly recommend Yandex Mail For Domain where you can use your own domain name free of charge. Personally I use it as my main e-mail account. Or you may use their regular Yandex.Mail if you don't have your own domain name.

If you have no biases against a Russian company, I highly recommend Yandex Mail For Domain where you can use your own domain name free of charge. Personally I use it as my main e-mail account. Or you may use their regular Yandex.Mail if you don't have your own domain name.

Fresh from Russia: https://mail.yandex.com/

Do a google search on mobile Chrome and on mobile Firefox and you'll see that there is some useful functionality that is only available on Chrome. Specifically if you check the images search.

Yes, I don't get this. Google reverse image search just doesn't work on Android Firefox, unless you tell it to request the desktop page. Then it works fine. Seems like it's just flat-out gratuitous incompatibility.

In any case, Yandex's image search seems to work better than Google's, at least for reverse search. Possibly because it hasn't been kneecapped by shotgun DMCA notices. Of course, you have to be comfortable uploading images to Russia.

Occasionally I come across websites that are trying to be very nosy causing my browser to stop functioning for a little while. The privacy options are still very good and easy to manage because that was originally Opera's selling point. YouTube, doesn't like it but you have the option to change your browser's user agent into Google's browsers user agent. Facebook will not allow it to even browse on Facebook. The Russian search engines are trying to push it off by telling you to get the Russian version of Google web browser. And I believe the Chinese have purchased the new version of the Opera browser for web browsing and for the smart phone. https://browser.yandex.com/old... 12.16 you can mask your user agent with whitespace which leaves no tracking for the majority of websites you visit because they cannot read your browsers user agent. WordPress for example. 12.16 doesn't play well with eBay, it treats eBay as spyware trying to make connections which the browser thinks shouldn't be allowed. opera:config#UserPrefs|CustomUser-Age

"Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu .. has published a new study suggesting that Google's new method of putting answers to simple search queries at the top of the results page is anticompetitive and harmful to consumers."

Have you considered using another search engine, perhaps one of ixquick.com or yandex.com. Oh wait, they don't come as default on Windows and Windows sets it back to Bing on every update.

Why not try:

The OpenBSD Foundation - Funding for OpenBSD and related Projects

Website:

http://www.openbsdfoundation.o...

You can reach many useful projects with this one foundation.

Projects such as OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, LibreSSL, and mandoc.

These guy are vital for our everyday life in: Security & Privacy.

A few related talks from them:
Exploit Mitigation Techniques:
https://events.yandex.com/even...

An OpenBSD talk by Michael Lucas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Thank you.

ixquick.com
yandex.com
torproject.org

Try http://www.yandex.com/. It's what google used to be before having
- "sponsored ranking" (the ranking can vary on the same day if the sponsors didn't paid enough btw)
- location based results (which is maybe nice for a pizza, but sucks otherwise)

Google

Yandex

ixquick Gerry Hutch

There is a very good reason to use Baidu: it won't share your data with NSA.

The worst thing from the privacy's point of view is when a single party has an access on most of your data. Then it is possible to reconstruct extremely accurate profile of your activities. Therefore dividing your data between multiple uncooperative parties is extremely important. Beside Baidu I also recommend using http://www.yandex.com/.

The censorship isn't a big deal since most of the time Slashdotters aren't searching for anything that is sensitive in China.

How is this unusual?
Don't French websites have the same provisions? How about France24 a popular news site:

These Conditions of Use will be subject to and interpreted in accordance with French law. Any dispute which cannot be resolved by agreement will be referred to the courts of Nanterre. In the event that any of the provisions of the Conditions of Use is held to be null or void, the remaining provisions will automatically be deemed to apply.

How about Russian web sites? Yandex for instance:

10.2. This Agreement shall be regulated and interpreted according to laws of the Russian Federation. Any issues not regulated hereby shall be settled according to Russian law. Any disputes arising out of relations regulated by this Agreement shall be settled as prescribed by applicable Russian laws according to Russian legal standards. In any part of this Agreement, unless otherwise stated, the term “law” shall mean laws of the Russian Federation as well as laws of the country of the User’s location.

People choose these types of restrictions EVERY TIME they sign up or use any site. Its the same everywhere in the world. You play in their arena, you play by their rules. And its not like neither of those examples or 100 others have foreign offices. They both do.

There is no reason Google should have to do anything other than that. The international standard for governance of web sites is that the Home Country Rules.

You agreed to that.

Although I seldom use their search engine directly since they focus more on searches in Russian, I can confirm that it works very well. They also have, among other things, better maintained and more detailed maps of ex-soviet countres with better traffic jam and accident tracking, an EXTREMELY convenient product search that lets you specify an insane amount of properties and features to pick the most fitting item that exists on the market and then find a good rated and cheap place to buy it, a great multilingual online dictionary and a convenient online storage service which has existed far longer than Google Drive. Their web pages have a simple, consistent and concise design, their ads are few and non-intrusive, and, on top of all this, the company has an almost cult standing among many tech students for its high wages and free CS and data mining school where they teach interested people in-depth data mining, artificial intelligence, algorithms and many other related and not-so-much things.

Why do I mention all this? First, to confirm that they are popular for a very good reason and, second, because most of their services use Internet data mining techniques to gather results, so if you live in CIS, chances are you are hooked anyway and you generate many internet searches indirectly even if you don't use their search feature. Unless Google pays as much attention to foreign countries as it does to the U.S. and keeps expanding its services, it should not be surprising to see sound local competition in some countries.

This is it. Today I abandon Google-search the same way as I left Altavista in 1999 and HotBot before it.

Moving to what? Well, after few minutes of googling I found Yandex, tested it with a non-obvious query "how to swap two numbers" and found the results being enough. Bye bye Google Hello Yandex