Internet Search Tips
Some neat stuff here. Only VERY briefly mentioned (so briefly I missed it at first) however: Substituting Yandex for Google is great for many use cases. Being Russian, Yandex is no doubt heavily censored, but <i>only for things important to Russian politics</i>. Ironically, this means that for non-Russian users, it's considerably LESS censored than Google, which has SEVERELY crippled its search in recent years in the name of politics, "politics," DMCA madness, "right to be forgotten" etc.<p>The image search is especially impressive. Remember when Google Images used to give you actual results when trying to find the source of an obscure image? Yandex still does, and it does a bunch of other neat things too, like automatically trying to transcribe text from an image if it's text-heavy. My instinct is that a lot of this capacity exists in Google Images, but is either mostly hidden from the user or deliberately hobbled to stop the oh so evil content pirates.<p>Zero privacy of course. Assume the Russian government is watching in realtime as you hammer in another inane search. But for some use cases that's fine.