Companies owning search technologies to take lead in AI race — expert

TASS · Jun 03, 2026 · 233 words

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Alexander Krainov, a director at Yandex, argues at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum that companies with existing search infrastructure are better positioned to lead in AI development. He suggests that large language models act as complements to search engines rather than replacements for them.

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Companies already having advanced information search systems for the global network and developing the technologies and infrastructure necessary for this purpose will take a leading position in developing new AI systems in the coming years, Alexander Krainov,…

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Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

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"When you ask AI questions, in many cases the neural network goes into a search to obtain information that was not in the training data.

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Claim 1: “Alexander Krainov, the Yandex Artificial Intelligence Technology Development Director, said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF)”

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Multiple independent web search results confirm Alexander Krainov's title as Director for Development of Artificial Intelligence Technologies at Yandex and his participation/speaking engagement at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

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web search NEUTRAL — The same ones are used everywhere,” Alexander Krainov, Director for Development of Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Yandex.The Roscongress International Cooperation Area has now wrapped up its wo…
https://forum-spb.ru/en/news/news/iskusstvennyj-intellekt-st…

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web search NEUTRAL — Alexander Krainov. Director of Artificial Intelligence Technology Development at Yandex.
https://nevskyf.ru/experts/en

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web search NEUTRAL — Krainov, Director of Artificial Intelligence Technology Development at Yandex.Strict regulation has slowed down the development of AI. Soft regulation can help the development of generative technologi…
https://cgitc.ru/en/media/the-future-of-ai-in-russia-soft-re…

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Claim 2: “there are currently only five global search engines in the world”

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

The claim that there are 'only five global search engines' is directly contradicted by evidence. A Wikipedia list of search engines and market share data from Statcounter and LARUS identify numerous global search engines including Google, Bing, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Ecosia, and Dogpile, exceeding the number five.

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web search NEUTRAL — Brave Search, Multilingual, Brave ; Dogpile, English, Metasearch engine ; DuckDuckGo, Multilingual, Multiple ; Ecosia, Multilingual, Google and Microsoft Bing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

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web search NEUTRAL — Jan 22, 2026 ... Standfirst — Google remains the world's dominant search engine, holding around 90% of the global search engine market as of April 2026.
https://larus.foundation/post/top-10-search-engines-by-marke…

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web search NEUTRAL — This graph shows the market share of search engines worldwide from June 2025 - June 2026. Google has 91.25%, Bing has 4.68% and YANDEX has 0.8%.
https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

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