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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 9 ms
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
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
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Yandex
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Yandex, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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!
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Security Check - Indeed.com
American worldwide job listing search engine
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Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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company owned by System1
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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.
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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.
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Human Verification
American real estate brokerage
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MovieWeb - Movie News, Trailers, Reviews, and Exclusives.
The latest movie news, trailers, reviews, and more.
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dating website
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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
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tripadvisor.com
American travel website company
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
- Yandex Metrica page source: mc.yandex.ru/metrika
- Email hosting
- Yandex Mail MX mx.yandex.ru
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 0A9E50D4F67EA7BB8CB934F63C41A83C
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=LUbMcUb0Zdviv4wd-A5JeHEzy5xZYZSWQQ0cx…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=FVk3gum7zZLdkqi96ypScROFMew0wMetq1Gpu4rkzPI
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=gy3xj2e9mxu0vtcdgqcznoaxoaiv63
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Yandex adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- GlobalSign 9/20
- Yandex Metrica 9/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on yandex.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on yandex.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite 5/20
- Yandex Mail 4/20
- Google Workspace · not on yandex.com 4/20
- nginx · not on yandex.com 4/20
- Next.js · not on yandex.com 3/20
- React · not on yandex.com 3/20
- jQuery · not on yandex.com 3/20
- Cloudflare · not on yandex.com 3/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools 2/20
- Apple Business · not on yandex.com 2/20
- DocuSign · not on yandex.com 2/20