Yandex
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Still messing around with search engines.
Wanted something different to the standard engines.
Chose Yandex because I have some hope of reading Russian, whereas I'd be totally lost looking at, say, Chinese. Plus, I especially like the Russians. Legacy of Boris and Natasha cartoon programming? LOL
After spending pretty much the whole day messing around with Russian Yandex, I've found that there's an English version ... I think.
Hard to explain. I'm not where I was. Thought I found an English version before system crashed for the millionth time, and before I gave up (for the time being).
Spent the day doing nothing. It's freaking me out how much time has passed while I've done nothing but crash and look up the occasional Russian word, flip from search engine to search engine, uninstall and re-install, fiddle with finding Linux commads to remove and to reinstate what I'd removed etc.
It's insane how much time has gone and I've done nothing. But I've learnt to find the name of programs on Linux, in order to purge (which is a plus) ... but the purge didn't seem to work. When I reinstalled etc, all my imported bookmarks were there and I could even access the tabs prior to the last crash, so that was no purge. Don't know what went wrong.
I'm back in Firefox for the time being, because the PC has crashed about a million times playing with Yandex, and I can't take any more.
Tried to find a method of figuring out what's wrong in Ubuntu but it's too complicated for me. I'm not up for simulated crashes or post-crash analysis. I was hoping for something simple. As in REALLY simple. It's taken me forever just to figure out how to re-enable cookies on Firefox so that I can get on here, because f#%$@ Google won't let me on unless I enable.
Yandex is described the world's fourth-largest search engine. Has a substantial market share on its home turf (plus regional) and is a competitor to the invading Google.
Frustrated a little by not being able to specify the ENGLISH version of the site in the list of search engine options -- and being unable to list any more search engines, after having added in DuckDuckGo. Not sure if they have a search engine list limit, or if I was just doing something wrong.
It's fun playing with the Russian version, but not being able to read Cyrillic script is a drawback -- it becomes a hassle of either trying to manually translate or do alphabetical look-ups to get a clue (when you can't use copy & paste). Very tiring. But it's unnecessary: as I said, there's an English version.
Although I've look at Cyrillic script a little here and there, and I've tried to remember the alphabet, it was a pretty slack effort on my part.
As in, I looked a couple of times & didn't practice to recognise the script with ease. So I've gone back and revisited the unfamiliar letters of the alphabet, in the hope of getting more comfortable being in a Russian online environment. I'm good as long as I have an alphabet cheat-sheet.
The symbol that stands out for me is the 'D' that looks like a funny 'A' shaped house on stilts ... which is a good fit, because house is: дом , the perfect memory aid.
There's lots of rules regarding the sounds, but I don't care about the rules. I'm not looking for precision. I just want to be able to recognise basics, like 'карта' for 'karta' which means 'map' or 'maps'. 'карта' also means 'card'.
There's French from Latin derivatives in English that go back to Greek, so I'm going to guess that maybe the Russian skips the Latin and goes straight to the Greek (Byzanntine, perhaps?) ... which in turn goes back to possibly early Greek and Egyptian (re 'karta'), but otherwise Greek is associated with Phonetician (I think).
Briefly looked at Yahoo (UK), as I wanted to search an English site for quick further info.
Imagine ludicrous social engineering propaganda combined with a smorgasbord of the crass, bizarre and perverse, that includes a Tesco upskirt pervt, and you have the British version of Yahoo:
Has Yahoo always been so appalling? Russian news (translated by Google) via Yandex was an oasis of sanity:
The UN Security Council is a joke: it's always blocking anything the US oligarchy and its accomplices want blocked.
Not sure if this will show up. Video's weren't publishing.
Казачий ансамбль "Братина"
Cossack ensemble "Bratina"
Between numerous crashes, looked at the following for fun:
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TOKYO MASTER BANNER
MINISTRY OF TOKYO
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April 06, 2016
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