Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Yandex

The 20 closest web search engine alternatives to Yandex, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 6 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Yandex? The closest matches are Yandex Search, Google and Rambler. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Yandex

Yandex yandex.com

Yandex — fast Internet search

Yandex finds anything: webpages, images, music, good. Solve any problem — from everyday to a scientific one. Search by text, voice or image.

Wikidata: Russian technology company

Top 1K · #415 English 6 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Yandex

Summary by Claude

Yandex.com is the international version of Yandex's web search engine, offering web, image, video and voice search plus links to other Yandex services such as maps, mail and translation.

Who it’s for
General internet users worldwide, especially Russian-speaking
Business model
Advertising

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Yandex’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

WhitepagesMapQuestDuckDuckGoBored PandaQwantMicrosoft BingColliderIndeedYahooMail.ru

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Yandex

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Yandex, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    Mail.ru mail.ru Top 100 English

    Russian web portal

  2. 02
    Yahoo yahoo.com Top 100 English

    Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos

    Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!

  3. 03
    Indeed indeed.com Top 1K English

    Security Check - Indeed.com

    American worldwide job listing search engine

  4. 04
    Lycos lycos.com Top 10K English

    Home – Lycos

    search engine and web portal

  5. 05
    Collider collider.com Top 10K English

    New Movie News, Movie Trailers & Upcoming Movie Reviews | Collider

    Stay up to date with new movie news, watch the latest movie trailers & get trusted reviews of upcoming movies & more from the team at Collider.

  6. 06
    Microsoft Bing bing.com Top 100 English

    Search - Microsoft Bing

    Search with Microsoft Bing and use the power of AI to find information, explore webpages, images, videos, maps, and more. A smart search engine for the forever curious.

  7. 07
    Qwant qwant.com English

    Qwant - The search engine that values you as a user, not as a product

    Fast, reliable answers and still in trust: Qwant does not store your search data, does not sell your personal data and is hosted in Europe.

  8. 08
    Bored Panda boredpanda.com Top 10K English

    Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas

    Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.

  9. 09
    DuckDuckGo duckduckgo.com Top 1K English

    DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.

    The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

  10. 10
    MapQuest mapquest.com Top 10K English

    company owned by System1

  11. 11
    Whitepages whitepages.com Top 10K English

    Whitepages: People Search, Phone Numbers & Addresses

    Founded in 1997, Whitepages is the largest U.S. directory and trusted source for contact info and property data. Find people, phone numbers, addresses, and emails nationwide. Free and premium search across the Whitepages Identity Graph: 350M+ identity records, 4B+ data linkages, 112M+ property records.

  12. 12
    Ahrefs ahrefs.com Top 10K English

    Ahrefs—AI Marketing Platform Powered by Big Data

    We help marketers drive visibility across AI search, SEO, content, and social – with the largest AI and search databases online.

  13. 13
    Redfin redfin.com Top 10K English

    Human Verification

    American real estate brokerage

  14. 14
    MovieWeb movieweb.com Top 10K English

    MovieWeb - Movie News, Trailers, Reviews, and Exclusives.

    The latest movie news, trailers, reviews, and more.

  15. 15
    match.com Top 10K English

    dating website

  16. 16
    British Broadcasting Corporation bbc.com Top 1K English

    BBC Home | Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio

    Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more

  17. 17
    Tripadvisor tripadvisor.com Top 1K English

    tripadvisor.com

    American travel website company

  18. 18
    The Pirate Bay thepiratebay.org Top 10K English

    Download music, movies, games, software! The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site

    Download music, movies, games, software and much more. The Pirate Bay is the galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site.

  19. 19
    Answers answers.com Top 10K English

    Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions

    Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want

  20. 20
    Snopes snopes.com Top 10K English

    Snopes.com | The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.

    The definitive Internet reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to yandex.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Yandex uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Yandex is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

Analytics
Email hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

Stack changes

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