Russia’s biggest search engine secretly put blocks in its code to stop images of Vladimir Putin showing up in the results of potentially embarrassing searches, according to a report.
Last week, fragments of the source code for Yandex—sometimes likened to “Russia’s Google”—were leaked online. Experts have been poring over the code ever since to see what can be gleaned about how the site works, with some eyebrow-raising results., Yandex automatically altered users’ search queries to stop images of President Vladimir Putin from showing up when the user searched for individual words including “bald” and “fucker.
Meduza’s report claims that these filtering rules would apply regardless of which country the user searched from, but it’s unclear when the rules were implemented or if they are still active.from appearing alongside results which the Kremlin would consider undesirable.
Meduza reports that swastikas still appear in the results for Yandex searches for the “Z” symbol or “special operation logo” but “it is not known whether this is due to the fact that the filter is already turned off or it simply does not work well.”
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