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aGRa_kursk | 4 years ago | on: Firefox is the 45th result when searching for “Firefox” on Windows Store

Or is it? For me, it's the first result. And that's how app stores are supposed to work: once enough users install the app, it skyrockets. AFAIK, Firefox on Windows Store is still pretty new, going from zero to first place shouldn't be instantaneous if rules are fair.

aGRa_kursk | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

Runet (Russian-speaking part of Internet) has LOTS of it. We have HN equivalent (habr.com). We have RSDN (rsdn.org), which is somewhat like StackOverflow, but in Russian.

Social networks largely unknown outside of Russia? We have'em (vk.com, ok.ru). Reddit equivalent? See pikabu.ru. IMDB? See kinopoisk.ru.

There's a Russian browser (Yandex.Browser), Russian map service (Yandex.maps), tons of Russian e-mail, hosting and cloud services, Russian Spotify (Yandex.Music), Russian Netflix (several of them, actually), Russian Uber (Yandex.Taxi, which actually owns Russian Uber).

You'll see lots of Yandex services here, it's sort of Russian Google (except it predates Google by a year or so). Yandex's primary business is search and advertising, but just like Google, they diversify a lot. And even in primary area, they sometimes manage to beat Google. Yandex's reverse image search (when you upload the image to search for similar ones) is FAR superior to Google's.

And there's a lot of unique Russian content on global sites like Facebook, Livejournal (owned by a Russian company nowadays) or Wikipedia.