January 2026 brought a steady stream of developments from the “other” major search ecosystems beyond Google, spanning Russia, Korea, Vietnam, and China. This roundup walks through the key moves and signals from Yandex, Naver, CocCoc, and Baidu, focusing on what ...
Search has always been framed as a ranking problem. A query goes in, a list comes out, and visibility is measured by position. That mental model breaks down quickly in AI-led search systems. In China and South Korea, two of ...
Search is fragmenting fast. Across Asia, Eastern Europe, and privacy-first markets, discovery is no longer driven by blue links or a single dominant engine. It is shaped by local AI systems, regional portals, government-aligned platforms, community knowledge bases, and retrieval ...
