by Roy Cochrun
Russian Language Resource
Search Engines This page allows Russian linguists to search exclusively in the ever-expanding Russian-language portion of the Worldwide Web. Search the Russian Web "The Net's relentless progress ... seems immune to massive financial crises. More than 2 million Russians are now online twice last year's user base, and an enormous increase for a country in such dire economic straits. In fact, user growth there is expected to skyrocket 133 percent by year-end 2000, much of it due to the increase in Russian-language content online." How America Uses the Net
by Bilge Ebiri
12 September 1999
Ziff-Davis (ZD-Net) Now you can search the Russian part of the Web . As long as you can view Cyrillic in your Web browser , you can use these wonderful sites. Each search engine linked below should open in a new window while keeping this page available to you. These engines accept English as well as Russian, although a Russian query gives better results. If your browser is not mapped to type Russian, but only to read it, you can copy and paste letters into the query box. This method is tedious, but it works in a pinch. BUT, do not despair! If your browser is Java Script capable , the Russian Cyrillic Helpers site has two neat pages to help "type" a Russian query. Just set your browser for KOI-8 fonts. One page gives you a Russian | |
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