What do Russians use as a search engine?

I stumbled across this fact about which search engines the Russian people use. Well, there are two ahead of Google and if I could read Russian, I would look to see why Google is number three. It may be that their search engines are picking up things that might be lost in the translation. This link to the statistic tells about Yandex and Rambler which have huge traffic share. Google comes in a distant third. What I do find amusing is that these search engines have the basic Google-like interface. It seems as that is the way everyone is going!

If there are any Russian people or anyone who speaks Russian, I would like to know why these search engines are readily used and are their search results more relevant than Google or Yahoo. Russia has many great software writers for sure and I would be interested to know more about these search engines.

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