Does Russia's search engine, called "Yandex", index pages that are only hosted in Russia, and not the global internet?
Yes, Yandex does index pages that are hosted in Russia, regardless of whether they are also available on the global internet. Yandex is a Russian internet and technology company that operates the most popular search engine in Russia It has the capability to index and display web pages hosted within Russia, making them accessible to its users.
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Does Yandex only index Russian sourced content? Or does it index the global internet as well?
Yandex does index content from the global internet, including foreign websites and global content. While it is a Russian search engine, it has been indexing foreign websites and adding global content to its search results for several years, making it accessible to its users. This means that Yandex does not limit its indexing to only Russian-sourced content.
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