{"id":36344,"date":"2022-06-24T16:21:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T20:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36344"},"modified":"2022-06-24T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T20:22:17","slug":"yandex-ceo-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/24\/yandex-ceo-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Yandex CEO Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simon Sharwood<\/a> (Yandex<\/a>, Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Arkady Volozh, CEO of Russia’s biggest internet company Yandex, has resigned after being added to the European Union’s list of individuals sanctioned as part of its response to the illegal invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>

Yandex is an analogue of Google, having started as a search engine and then added numerous productivity, cloud, and social services.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

The document also accuses Yandex of “promoting State media and narratives in its search results, and deranking and removing content critical of the Kremlin, such as content related to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Reuters<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Volozh, who co-founded the Yandex search engine in 1997, was put under EU sanctions on Friday after the bloc accused him of “materially or financially” supporting Russia, which sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

ddtaylor<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Yandex does one thing that most other search engines refuse to do: search for hashes. If you take a hash and put it into Google, Bing, etc. they basically refuse to search for it unless it’s a “well known” hash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n