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Many "alternative" search engines are better for privacy, but they are still vulnerable to censorship, because they rely on g**gle and m*crosoft's indices for their search results. This isn't a deep-hidden secret either, many of them disclose what search index they use on the "about" page, for example:

There are still search engines that (claim to) maintain their own index. Most surprisingly, br*ve:

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[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (9 children)
[–] menny@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Best reverse image search there is yo

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Why is that their logo? There's no R in Yandex.

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Let me break this down:

Я: “Ya” sound

н: “N” sound

д: “D” sound

е: “Eh” sound

к: “K” sound

с: “S” sound, or “C” sound as in “citrus”

Other fun facts:

  1. There aren’t usually separate letters for capitals and lower case, only being written either full or half size.
  2. Cyrillic isn’t hugely or vastly different from Greek. The л (L) is often written like lambda (Λ), and п (P) is very much like pi (Π). Other similar letters include Д (Delta), Р (Rho), Ф (Phi) and Г (Gamma), in no particular order.
  3. Водка (Vodka, almost trivial) literally means “heavy water”. Water is «Вода». Possibly the most important word in all of the Motherland.
  4. Like virtually all major Eastern languages (and most languages in general), Cyrillic is pretty phonetically consistent. Letters basically never make multiple sounds, unless accents and such are used.
  5. ВORДТ (The show), which doesn’t even fit in English OR Russian, is transliterated to “VORDT”, which I find kinda funny.

I don’t actually know Russian, or any Cyrillic language. You’re welcome. Bonus dog for engagement.

[–] Chestnut@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

There is if you use the Cyrillic alphabet because Yandex is Russian

[–] lledrtx@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago
[–] Jknaraa@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Damn, that's my go-to and I didn't even recognize it's logo. Shows up as a Y on the site for me.

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