Of course it is not. Yandex is a trash search box from Russia with completely irrelevant search results for most of the queries you will try out. I bet they evolve a bit, just like every company in the world, but still will never forget that they are placing doorway domains and overoptimized sites into top positions. Yandex is a good place for black seo tactics, but it will never get decent audience because of it. People simply can't find what they are looking for in it. I consider targeting for it as a huge mistake.
Completely disagree with you. Yandex search algorithm is NOT worse than google, if not better. The other thing is - it's more oriented on russian traffic. Google for example is also not really good in Russia. It all depends, they all have their own part of market and traffic.
Yandex is a search engine of Russia while Google is using by all country. Yandex is very small in front of Google.
it seems like that you are all lover of Google but ..did you search your same keyword on Google as well as on yandex and there is a lot of difference in their searching algorithm. you must have to check both searching algorithm.
Yandex the most popular search engine in Russia (and ex USSR). I think it's not so good as Google, Google The Best! but has another interesting services, example mail service mail.yandex.com, with awesome themes, and other thing and settings. you may turn off the ad for example, IMAP and secure connections also supported. Has mail service for domain (1000 free mailboxes) such as Google Mail App. Mail very comfortable for me against gmail. Also Yandex has Yandex.disk (online storage, as dropbox) Test their services, you may be wonder.
http://company.yandex.com//general_info/yandex_today.xml Not bad, i think? it's like china baidu. Big, but local.
There is such a thing as Yandex Bar, it's a piece of crap which they put into absolutely every of their sites and some partners sites, software and plugins as well. This bar is some kind of plugin for your browser, which makes lots of changes in your PC. It sets their search engine as default in all your browsers, trashes some icons at your desktop with shortcuts/bookmarks icons to their services which you don't really asked for, sets their webpages as homepages in your browsers and do some worse things as well. This plus tons of spammy tactics and really annoying flashing everywhere they can reach you results in that 'breaking' record of 50 million visitors on all of their services (and they have so many of them). That's how they generate traffic and that's why almost everyone hates them. Hell, I'll rather do my search in Baidu than in Yandex. Ofc they are getting their audience in their local market, but no one likes the way they do it.
I think Google is still better then Yandex but Yandex also is improving very fast in Turkey. Some yandex functions also better than google, for example yandex mail and yandex disc.
Yandex.ru is the most popular site in Russia where Yandex is having >60% search engine market share. The English search option they provide is just an additional service for English search which can't be compared with Google as overall. Let Google beat Yandex in Russia and then we can say they are the best...otherwise we can just say Google is best in overall English searches. They can't even go nearer to Yandex (or Baidu for that case) in their local markets whatsoever the reason.
As much as I would like to try a different search engine, just so that an underdog can prosper, I have to admit, Google is the best for the job. They have the money and have done the research to provide me with everything and more than I was searching for.
Yandex just runs great in Russia, but it is not the best in the world, Google occupies the big share in the world.
Yandex will continue to grow its presence on the international scene, but it will be limited to Slavic speaking territories and a few other places like Kazakhstan and Turkey, for example, where Google isn’t focused and where Yandex already has a good solution for the language families present on those markets.â€
Don't think so. Because Yandex is just used by Russians and may be a little more out. But Google is the search engine giant of the whole world.