Russian Search Giant Yandex Tells Investors It's Looking For a Media Exit (techcrunch.com) 25
Russia's Internet giant Yandex has told investors it's exploring "strategic options" for its media products -- including a potential sale of its news aggregator, Yandex News, and a user-generated-content-recommendation and blogging "infotainment" platform, called Zen. From a report: The disclosure confirms our reporting earlier this week -- when sources told us Yandex is in discussions to sell Yandex News and Zen. Our sources suggested the move is linked to the risks posed by tighter regulations on freedom of expression by the Russian state since it went to war in Ukraine, including a new law which threatens lengthy jail sentences for anyone spreading "false" information about the Russian military (such as by referring to the "war" in Ukraine, rather than using the Kremlin's preferred phrasing of "special military operation").
Put a fork in it (Score:2)
The Russian economy is cooked. The market won’t open next week and probably not again for a very long time.
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The market won’t open next week and probably not again for a very long time.
The last time the stock market was closed for more than a week, it ended up being closed for 70 years.
In other words (Score:2)
they aren't worth anything and are trying to cash out whatever they can get from RUBE(l)s?
Redhead open door (Score:4, Interesting)
they aren't worth anything and are trying to cash out whatever they can get from RUBE(l)s?
Pity that. Yandex has the best image search of all of them.
Google image search tops out at about 3 words: google "redhead open door" and you see very few doors, and even fewer are open.
Yandex image search often works out to 5 words of selection, so "redhead open door" gives lots of very good matches, and even "redhead open car door" is pretty useful.
Depending on the specificity of the words, you can sometimes get useful matches out to 6 words with yandex.
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I admit I've never used it, but that does sound useful.
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they aren't worth anything and are trying to cash out whatever they can get from RUBE(l)s?
Pity that. Yandex has the best image search of all of them.
Google image search tops out at about 3 words: google "redhead open door" and you see very few doors, and even fewer are open.
Yandex image search often works out to 5 words of selection, so "redhead open door" gives lots of very good matches, and even "redhead open car door" is pretty useful.
Depending on the specificity of the words, you can sometimes get useful matches out to 6 words with yandex.
Before posting I did an image search using Google, and "redhead open door" came up with almost nothing. Then I tried "redhead open car door" and again, nothing.
After posting I tried "redhead open door" again and now it comes up with a ton of useful hits.
And most of the hits on the 2nd search are redheads opening *car* doors, even though that wasn't a word in my second search.
I must be hitting different servers or some type of caching.
If you want to check google images against yandex, use your own, new searc
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so "redhead open door" gives lots of very good matches, and even "redhead open car door" is pretty useful.
Is that with SafeSearch on or off?
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Google's regular search is equally shitty.
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Yandex image search often works out to 5 words of selection, so "redhead open door" gives lots of very good matches, and even "redhead open car door" is pretty useful.
So now we know the answer to the question, "What does a redhead do after she has sex?"
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Yeah, "false" information (Score:3)
Such as the estimated 7,000 Russian soldiers killed in three weeks, and two to three times that number wounded, MIA or other. Or the four Russian generals killed in three weeks. Or the numerous other officers being dispatchd by the Ukrainian army. The inability to move 25 kilometers because the supply lines keeping getting attacked. Not having air superiority in three weeks. Or the deliberate shelling of a maternity hospital. The deliberate shelling of school which had the words 'children' spelled out on the ground next to it. Or the shelling of churches. Or all the other failures the Russian army is suffering due to corruption and ineptitude.
Wouldn't want any of that "false" information to get out, now would we?
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In breaking news, popular tech website Slashdot has now been blocked by the Russian government's firewall.
In post-Soviet Russia... (Score:3)
In post-Soviet Russia, government fires at you against wall.
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In UA-RU conflict, wall fires at soldiers.
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In Putin's Russia, government puts wall up against you!
(By bombing hospitals, theaters, and apartment complexes)
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But, but, but - what about the big surge? When everyone's guard is down!!
Poor Word Choice (Score:2)
tree fiddy (Score:2)
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That will be 13 trillion rubles... or $12.39
No time to fry (Score:1)
Straight up lie (Score:1)
That's a straight up lie by the way. No. Nobody is being thrown in jail, sued, or summarily executed for calling it a "war" instead of "special operation". I watch Russian news often enough to have heard all kinds of people refer to it as "War" and then appear on the news next day or a few days later to do it again. It's like 50/50 who will call it what. Straight up lie built into the summary of the article.
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That's a straight up lie by the way. No. Nobody is being thrown in jail, sued, or summarily executed for calling it a "war" instead of "special operation". I watch Russian news often enough to have heard all kinds of people refer to it as "War" and then appear on the news next day or a few days later to do it again. It's like 50/50 who will call it what. Straight up lie built into the summary of the article.
Ekho Moskvy, InoSMI, Mediazona, New Times, TV Rain, Svobodnaya Pressa, Crimea. Realties, Novaya Gazeta, Journalist, and Leninizdat would probably disagree.