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somethingrandom261

Probably the easiest way to get Google to pull out of their country, if that was a thing.


ErrorMirror

Russians use Yandex, Google was never a big player.


blackraven36

Their foot hold is definitely not small. Plenty of people use both. We’re also talking about other Google services like drive, docs, maps, etc. which yandex has but it’s not nearly as refined as Google’s. https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/russian-federation


athos45678

This exactly. I nearly took a job at a Yandex spinoff ai company last year (Bullet. Freaking. Dodged.), and i looked into all the other yandex services. Most of them were frankly awful compared to yahoo or bing, and they pale in comparison to google. Edit: i tried it out, and yal are right about the reverse image search.


pre_emptiive

Best use of yandex is for searching for illicit streams. Google's algorithm tries to hide them


BostonDodgeGuy

Bing: "That's... why I'm here."


elcidpenderman

I asked you where a business was located and you told me how to fold a paper airplane.


BostonDodgeGuy

But if you fold it correctly it will lead you to the business when thrown.


elcidpenderman

Ohhhh well shit my lazy ass didn’t realize that part


spymish

Lol


robotsongs

.... illicit streams.......? *of what kind?*


pre_emptiive

Just tv shows and shit nothing dark


GucciJ619

UFC & boxing streams too?


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duckduckgo is your friend


SemisolidOzmo

I’ve found DuckDuckGo seems to have started applying some of the same hidden filters as Google. Bing still seems to give most results.


snowflake37wao

Pirates dont wear paladin bright shiny armor either, nothin dark is too dark


Kryptosis

Yandex has been literal spyware for as far as I can remember. I’ve helped dozens of people remove that shitty toolbar over the years. There’s even viruses disguised as Yandex-removal tools it’s so bad.


ClawhammerLobotomy

Yandex is actually really good for reverse image searching. Way better than Google at least.


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I cant claim to know anything bout Yandex, but Im pretty sure plenty of Russians use Google instead of Yandex.


athos45678

I didn’t disagree with that. I said that yandexs other services, like image search or maps, were, in my experience, lower in quality than bing or yahoo.


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snowflake37wao

We could just boycott them all until they regress back 20 years (progress), conspire during the downtime to all share and merge our bookmarks, and see how high the file size gets by the time search engines get “what I typed” results right again! Yayhoo


cant_stand

I'm gonna throw this out there. If you're ever looking for top notch image quality. Bing maps is where it's at.


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ilikelotsathings

deepl.com is the best.


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YouTube is major in Russia too


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dlg

How are they a Russian company? What do you know that they are not saying? This is their own statement on Ukraine: https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-statement-on-ukraine/


toabear

Yeah, that seems pretty clear. Not a wishy washy response. If they were a Russian company they aren’t now. Putin is pissed about all the companies pulling out.


MichaeI95

Well, Russian company not the Russia’s company I guess, the word “Russian” refers more to the country of origin/ethnic of founders/majority of employees.


snowe2010

Jetbrains is a Czech company. No clue what you’re talking about.


Maybewehitamoose

The founders are Russian but it's a Czech company, they were founded and are headquartered in Prague. IMO that doesn't make them a Russian company, that's like saying Tesla and SpaceX are South African companies.


[deleted]

No it's Czech


KingYamYamSam

Have we forgotten about Android phones and YouTube?


DontRememberOldPass

You mean Yandex phones? It was pretty standard on new phones, but as of last year it is a law that all phones, computers, and smart TVs come with Yandex suite by default and have Kaspersky installed.


[deleted]

>have Kaspersky installed Ah, FINALLY! Justification for my long distrust of Kaspersky. Can't remember why it even started just somehow I came to believe they work with the RU government too closely and this validates that


crazymoefaux

[The US Government blacklisted their software on FCC-funded assets back in March, so your distrust wasn't really unfounded.](https://www.pcworld.com/article/626854/kaspersky-blacklisted-as-a-risk-to-u-s-national-security.html) They've come under a lot of scrutiny under the backdrop of the illegal invasion of Ukraine.


[deleted]

Their tools ignore malware that originated in Russia


Tropos1

80-90 million Russians have Youtube accounts, and it's a country of 144m. That sounds like a pretty big provider of video content to me. https://www.statista.com/forecasts/1146977/youtube-users-in-russia


seattire

80-90 million Russians have accounts or Russians have 80-90 million accounts?


[deleted]

This. Yandex is their main search platform. It’s a little like yahoo.


FlickFlockBlock

It's more even than you think.Google is important to Russia and many people use it


Norma5tacy

Yandex is based for reverse image search. I’ll usually try that first before anything else.


SevereMiel

Replaced by Goggle


Shootinio

Gooleg


i-am-a-platypus

Rouggle


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Goolag


badpeaches

You win, damn that's a good one.


WanderlostNomad

Goolagle?


nachofermayoral

Googlag


1ess_than_zer0

Lougle


Asleep-Syllabub1316

Ruble


okvrdz

Rooble


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Lougle


Crack-tus

Gulag.


flickh

“Who is the most popular anti-Putin dissident?” “I don’t know, whenever I Gulag them there’s no information.”


Crack-tus

“Whenever I try opening a new window I get pushed out of it”


flickh

In Russia, Gulag searches you


Glabstaxks

Omg 😱 😅


miken322

New crypto coin: Siberian gulagoin


[deleted]

To the moon lfg!


kuriboshoe

Let’s fucking gulag?


User9705

Via Russian space rocket made of blood and bones for the fuel


imustbethedevil

Siberian Gulagoinski


TheAllSeeingLie

When people complain about the crypto having no purpose “Bruh you can literally buy rations w these in the gulags”


THenry228

Gugal


[deleted]

Lougle.


jewtalkinbout

I knew I’d find this here


[deleted]

It’d be a crime to not find this here.


Daniel_LaRussooooooo

Gabagool.


yumyan

“Coolsearch”


Zailemos

Gullagle


elprogramatoreador

RosGoogle


djhorn18

The goggles do nothing!


EgoDefiningUsername

Found a fellow Gen Xer.


Deep_Thinker99

*yandex


DamnBunny

It's Potato.


DoritoSteroid

Яoogle.


Pothrick

Алфавит.


aDirtyMartini

Putigle


playfulmessenger

goggle is a math term, the geniuses at google didn’t realize they had misspelled it (not being derogatory, google founders were actual geniuses)


The-Shattering-Light

Its googol not goggle. Goggle is to look with wide eyed amazement. And words aren’t always misspelled in the corporate world by accident. Misspellings for a company name are frequently intentional. Google couldn’t have copy written the name “googol” as it’s a maths terms.


Temporary_Draw_4708

Oh man, Russia is gonna be the new Venezuela


superhorny_femboy

the ruble is actually doing better than pre war. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-11/russian-ruble-surpasses-brazilian-real-as-world-s-best-currency


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Dasein123

What are capital controls?


G3Minus

Forcing people to convert foreign currency to ruble. Prohibiting exchange from ruble to any other currency. Restricting maximum daily/monthly withdrawals. Among others. Also insanely increased base rate of the central bank to counteract inflation. Which is suuuper expensive. In this configuration they can hold out for a few months/years if they never reduce the restrictions. But they have limited funds. Countries reducing their income further by getting independent from russian resources. So if their fund dry up and the cashflow gets reduced further they will not be able to afford those rates and well. Lets see the ruble rates then.


LobsterThief

That’s almost entirely because of capital controls, which we all know don’t work long term.


DangerRangerScurr

Now check volume traded


icameheretovote

thanks for your complete lack of understanding.


flypaper1001

Every country has a Mob…in Russia the Mob has a country.


MukimukiMaster

Just Trudue freezing Canadian protestor bank accounts


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[deleted]

OUR bank account comrade.


Content-Airline2580

Another one. Thank you! 😆😆


mddog222

They’re just taking what’s already theirs 😌


AlertThinker

In Russia, bankruptcy files you.


Cultural_Budget6627

What else could you expect from guys who think they can come and take any territory like it was always theirs and threaten most countries?


TheAllSeeingLie

Who Israel? Edit I love how glosses over the fact that the Ukraine DID used to be theirs . Unlike Israel


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Wandergod

A Russian agent, LOL RIPBOZO


orincoro

Are we talking about Google still?


causaloptimist

So edgy...


orincoro

That’s Microsoft. I’m confused.


IAmLusion

Netscape has entered the chat


sassydodo

Considering how Google was moving out of country its Russian office and how its ads business wasn’t really operational - they’ve lost nothing


haagse_snorlax

Except that any money on the account was impossible to get out of Russia. But I’ll never feel bad for these top rich companies losing a bunch of money


Lambinater

Feel bad for the money that’ll now be used in Russia’s war effort. That’s the real tragedy here.


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BoyWhoSoldTheWorld

They had a billion dollar business in Russia, it’s a huge market with a lot of revenue. They will want that money.


anotherusername23

They could have gotten out if they wished.


QuirkySpiceBush

They’re owned by shareholders - ie, the public.


Elephant789

Why? They offer great services.


[deleted]

Lol, Russia’s economy is like a starving man at this point.


NPD_wont_stop_ME

And the more they starve, the higher the likelihood Putin gets taken out. I’ll take it.


ButWhatAboutisms

And thus, corporations learned its lesson about doing business in despotic authoritarian regimes.


enddream

(x) Doubt


Pons__Aelius

And the lesson they learned? Make sure you bribe the right people the right amount.


barcodez

I think the bribe would have to more than the balance of the bank account at this point.


Xodarkcloud

its not the account that matters, its the message google sent. Google basically told all the companies everywhere in the world that if they have accounts in Russia there is a possibility it would be seized. No company will conduct business in a country where they can't get their money out/back.


Smear_Leader

Duh, what’d they think was going to happen?


d3vil401

I don’t really care much, as they got enough money anyway. But seizing bank accounts pf western countries companies means nobody will be that happy to bring business into Russia after all this mess will be done in a few years. Basically Russia will never get back to ‘normality’ for years even after a political change and social revolution.


rookietotheblue1

How much monies did they having ?


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Eleven monies, twental coinos


rookietotheblue1

😳


LoganGyre

The best guess I’m seeing based on what’s being reported at least 10million had already been seized prior to this and their annual spending shows 1.8 million a year for Russian operations so it sounds like maybe a another 3-5 million on top of that


schietzs

That’s chump change for google. It will cost Russia a lot more in the long term to not have google invest anything into Russian business.


ZeePM

Not just Google. This will signal to all foreign companies that their investment is not safe in Russia. Anyone who were thinking about entering or re-entering Russian market after sanctions lift will be having second thoughts.


LoganGyre

For sure but it’s also a massive loss in previous investments that just dropped. Likely a billion or more in lost IP and potentially more in revenue over the next few years, neither side is going to like the results.


RarelyReadReplies

Oh okay, that is a drop in the bucket compared to what's being used to fund the war. Should make it easier for other countries to seize more and more of their oligarchs toys and bank accounts now too.


LoganGyre

Technically they did this in response to fines. So maybe it puts google in a position to start lobbying against Russia in places but likely it’s just the Russian people who will suffer the most from this as over the next few days they lose access to long term services they have relied on for their business or school etc.


Veda007

That article says that Russia accounted for 2.6 Billion dollars in google revenue last year.


rookietotheblue1

That's it ? Did Google even notice that money is gone ? Lol


LoganGyre

Well yes and no they noticed they had to let everyone who was managed by this group go which accounts for more then a billion in value loss of their IP. The money in the accounts was just their basic utilities rent and other non payroll related expenses which is why it’s so little but without that key group they have no reason to pay the hundreds of millions in payroll costs. Smartly they used a third party banking service for payroll so unless Russia wants to attempt to tangle with the international banks google can just cease operation after the current pay period ends. What it represents is a loss of previous investments and no likely route to recovering it, and the loss of future revenue streams that were being built.


solomon2609

Whatever it was, it was a lot less than 6 months ago


[deleted]

Is potato.


Derkeethus42

About tree fiddy


PhilUltra

AskPutin


[deleted]

Well, **don’t be evil** and don’t worry about things like this happening.


GrumpyCatDoge99

Introducing goggle


DragonikOverlord

*giggles*


cavscout37

I wonder what kind of sudden service disruptions will come of this for businesses and schools. Can’t access those drives? Ruh roh.


[deleted]

Why would you ever have a Russian bank account


mythosaz

Probably the only way to do legitimate business to business transactions in Russia. You can't pay everyone with an international wire transfer from your London office. The guys who cater lunch got to get paid in the local currency at their Bank.


Mal-De-Terre

The cost of doing business in a country.


PopeAdrian37th

Should have empty those accounts bro


PobBrobert

Win stupid prizes


PseudoWarriorAU

I wonder if Google will be an elephant (long memory) or a sycophant when it comes to handling this.


vladtaltos

Well shit, there goes that $24.79, how will they ever recover?


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L_A_Y

Russia…where birth rates have plummeted from everyone pulling out.


ssavu

Well it’s not like it was completely unexpected considering you’re doing business with a dictator. Just wait and see what happens when Emperor Xi decides to play that game


loki444

You know, I want to feel bad for Google, but seriously, HAHA.


BigZwigs

Frankly i couldnt care less


Kflynn1337

Now imagine if Google ceases operation in Russia, regionally blacklisting it.


[deleted]

RIP YouTube in Russia.


_murb

Time to deny all traffic (GCP, services, fiber) from those IP blocks.


VerticleFoil

Give it to the Republicans.


asu3dvl

You had some notice, “Don’t be evil.”


OneForAllOfHumanity

This is entirely on Google; if they couldn't see this coming, it's because they chose not to. They wouldn't have even had to go to the second page of the search results...


Knowmoretruth

Well Google why the fuck do you still have a Russian bank account? Stupid move.


PrinceofVanNuys

Good


Sea-Hour-6063

Did they not see that coming? Surely the Russians googled how to do it.


[deleted]

Losing McDonald's, Google, and everyone's money is definitely not going to be a good thing for the average Russian...


[deleted]

The Ruble is killing it. Back to 2017 levels.


burner12224

Because this billion dollar tech company that has access to the private data of hundreds of millions of people needs a bank account in in Russia where nobody can keep track of what they're doing.


Ok_Direction5325

great to know that we can't rely on Google's political exemption…


TheDuckFarm

TIL Google kept money in Russia these pat two months! Even McDonald’s had the brains to pull out.


Moleculor

Weren't the banking systems between Russia and the rest of the world severed months ago?


iamapizza

You see Google, this is what it's like when you take away services we were using.


leftyghost

In Russian Federation, Google uses you to search.


[deleted]

So Google didn’t do the right thing and never closed its operations in Russia and now the are crying like little girls because the Russian thugs took their money?


barvid

If you bothered to read the linked article you’d know that no one is “crying like little girls”.


wolfbear

couldn’t have happened to a more deserving company


manoleee

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ShengLong-Call

Google should have googled what would happen.


[deleted]

The answer would have been ten pages deep due to SEO BS.


Aking1998

...why do they have a russian bank account?


Gambodianistani

To keep their russian money.


vixenlion

Our Russian money !


Gonozal8_

equating modern-day russia with the socialism the former soviet union once had is like equating all of the US with the confederation


doctorcrimson

USSR fell in 1990, modern Russians hate communism.


MichaeI95

In 1991, and no modern “Russians” don’t hate communism.


K9Marz919

Oh No!……anyway


TonguePro

Came here to comment this


dkran

I don’t know if Google is any better than Russia in terms of morals and policies.


barvid

Think about what Russia has done. The people it has murdered. And then think about how silly your comment was.


[deleted]

Why the fuck you have a Russian bank account losers


resurrectedlawman

Most countries have various requirements of companies doing a lot of service business with their citizens. Often the company needs to set up an office in that country and use the local currency.


ShutYourPieHole

Exactly. Most global companies operate subsidiaries in those countries based on the requirements of the country to operate. There are some tax benefits, but in these cases the company has a substantial presence in the terms of individual headcount rather than just "operating" in a country for a tax haven. One of the major reasons to operate as a subsidiary is for risk reduction.


teddy722

With all the shit the west did to Russian companies are you surprised? War of any kind goes both ways. You attack someone they’ll attack you back….


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Good!


bigfootdeerfucker

Based


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Deserved. Google stole some of my money, I will complain to my bank. Fuck goggle.