I use Chrome almost exclusively.  It is at least twice as fast as the alternatives and almost (ALMOST) never crashes.  I use it on Linux, MAC OS and WinDoze.You can change the default search engine with 5 mouse clicks.Yandex can whine all it wants, just don't get into the BS that Mozilla created some time ago with MicroSloth (Internet Explorer vs Netscape).  That is counter productive for everyone.It commerce and capitalism, make a better product and people will come (especially on the Internet).  Yandex is native Russian, it will win out or at least compete in the Russian market.Yandex needs to get into the Cloud business now (not just hard drives, but virtual machines and applications).Just my $.02.

@MM

it turns out that ALL the best Soviet mathematicians and programmers are working in American companies, from Cisco, to Microsoft to Apple. All of them, and at the highest Chief Developers and Chief Technical Officers.

Whe n the Soviet Union was overthrown, there was much more than misery and criminality. The best brains of Russia left.  That amounts to treason. They should be kidnapped and forced to work for the motherland which gave them the supreme unique knowledge.

To day Russia is nothing compared to what it was. Unfortunately and to my enormous sadness.

MM (unregistered) wrote in #2
Who writes this crud ....
"You cannot contribute to [Android], it's semi-open source…If you download an application it does not work if it's not Android marketplace. So that's an interesting question," Segalovi ch pointed out.
-Being that there are three other marketplaces (including amazon app store) and that you can develop your own apps, or use friends APK files ... who ever wrote this is simply ignorant to how android works, or they are fear mongering by spreading propagand a ...
He said BlackBerry is trying to use Android, but it will not work properly. Also, the Google-developed Chrome internet browser uses Google search engine on default. It violates fair competition, Segalovich believes, as a user is not suggested a choice of search engines like Yahoo, Bing and Yandex.
-And explorer uses BING or MSN by default ... why would they not have their services on their browser by default. No one is forcing you to use google chrome, but it is one of if not the fastest browser. Oh and you can change the default search engine. 
Great reporting. Maybe if Yandex provided a good service compared to google it would have more of the market.

Where do you think the name "Sergey" comes from ? definitively not from Paris.

The parents of Sergey were Jewish Soviet mathematicians specialised in search algorithms (what a coincidence, eh?)
Jews that they were they were denied access to military sections and nuclear data sheets.
They took all their knowledge and fled to the US. Their son was nothing but a mediocre student from Maryland state university. Once he finished the degree in computer science (which in any US public university it is a joke to get) he moved to Standford to start a doctorate. When the Stanford university saw what Sergey had brought as a present from his parents, they took it and gave them all the logistic, financial and needed network to develop it. The rest is what you know of Google today.
Once again, the Jews win, Russia phacks up again.