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Russian Search Engine Yandex Beats Bing

Posted by timothy on from the but-it-doesn't-sound-verby dept.

judgecorp writes "The Russian search engine Yandex has beaten Microsoft in the search engine rankings, taking fourth place behind Google, China's Baidu and Yahoo, according to ComScore. The result won't be encouraging for Microsoft, which will also be disappointed to see Bing behind its partner Yahoo."

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  1. Oops by Smivs · · Score: 4, Informative

    The slide into oblivion continues apace.

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    1. Re:Oops by hawkinspeter · · Score: 4, Funny

      So, if BING stands for "But It's Not Google", what does YANDEX stand for?

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    2. Re:Oops by Kostic · · Score: 4, Informative

      It has a cross-language meaning. In Russian, Rndex means Index and in English it stands for "Yet Another Indexer". At least, that's what hippies at the Wikipedia wrote.

    3. Re:Oops by flyneye · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, I remember Alta Vista being the stuff back when you could throw 14,400 modems at dinosaurs to distract them and make a clean getaway.

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    4. Re:Oops by temcat · · Score: 4, Informative

      "Rndex" (with the Cyrillic "Ya" going first) is not a word in Russian. "Indeks" is. So "Yandex" is an invented word.

  2. Re:What search-engine rankings? by ilguido · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where does it say that they measured Google search results? RTFA or at least their about page before defending poor little M$.

  3. Cue 'em up by cellocgw · · Score: 3, Funny

    The "BazINGa" and "badaBING" jokes that is.

    In Soviet Russia, the Yandex Bings you?

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  4. It's actually pretty good here too. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I use the Turkish version of Yandex (yandex.com.tr).

    It is awesome when it comes to local stuff or very specific topics. Like when online shopping, you just search for the model number of the tv you want to buy and it finds where it's cheapest. You search for a movie, allow it to use your locaiton and "BAM" you get the nearest showtime at the closest place with ticket prices.

  5. This is pretty silly. by argStyopa · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This isn't a ranking of performance, it's a ranking of 'number of searches', which (for whatever it's actually worth, which is probably ad revenue only) can easily be gamed.

    "Microsoft still attracted 268.6 million unique searchers in December, and Yandex just 74.4 million, which suggests that Yandex aficionados tend to use their search engine more intensively." ...which both points to MS's success in jamming it down people's throats as the 'first search' in any MS device (for chrissakes in Win7 google isn't even OFFERED as one of the search options - you have to download an extension to IE to set google as the default search, lol), AND likewise suggests that the Yandex results are in fact being gamed somehow.

    The Chinese results are simple, it's in CHINESE, which has billions of native users.
    Google dominates the english speaking world, and I guess Yandex gets the Russians.

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  6. Re:Oops-near miss by foobsr · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Wikipedia sometimes helps: "The name initially stood for "Yet Another iNDEXer". The Russian word "" ("Ya") corresponds to the English personal pronoun "I", making "ndex" a bilingual pun on "index". ...".

    A pun indeed.

    CC.

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  7. Do You Know What The Meaning Of The Word 'Bing' Is by szyzyg · · Score: 3, Informative

    In Britain a 'Bing' is a spoil heap, it's a pile of dirt taken from mining and discarded.
    i.e. it's all the worthless crap left behind after you've taken the good stuff out.