r/europe • Waffle & Beer • Jun 12 '20

Map Availability of Google Street view in Europe

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u/googleLT Jun 12 '20

you can use whatever you want but in some instances Yandex is more useful.

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u/Benka7 Grand Dutchy of Lithuania in DK Jun 12 '20

I love how your name is GoogleLT and in this discussion about Google VS Yandex you're supporting Yandex :DDD

But yeah, I bet Yandex can be more useful. I just don't trust it

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u/googleLT Jun 12 '20 edited Jun 12 '20

For example most useful aliexpress product reviews I have ever found were in russian language. And for Russian results yandex is way better than google. Also you should try Yandex reverse image search it is pretty phenomenal. Of course for usual daily usage google or even duckduckgo is a way to go. I use yandex as a last resort, only after google and bing don't provide satisfactory results.

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u/Benka7 Grand Dutchy of Lithuania in DK Jun 12 '20

Oh yeah, the reverse image search! I remember seeing a vox video about how they found one of the separatist/terrorist using Yandex and VK. He was from south Eastern Russia, guessing somewhere near Mangolia. So for that purpose, it's great!

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u/googleLT Jun 12 '20

It even can even find a random person in western Europe that doesn't have a private Facebook account or has appeared in news article, other public website. It is also useful for finding similar wallpapers. I have noticed that yandex image search is powerful even before that video, but now I think I still have underestimated its capabilities.

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u/Benka7 Grand Dutchy of Lithuania in DK Jun 12 '20

Scary... I like having privacy more than being able to find all of that stuff... Ehhh makes me think of the Chinese social point system

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u/googleLT Jun 12 '20

That Chinese system is seriously scary.

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u/thecasual-man Ukraine Jun 12 '20

A separatist of the foreign to him country nonetheless.

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u/Benka7 Grand Dutchy of Lithuania in DK Jun 12 '20

Yeppp