For instance, Yandex succeeds in Russia (with a 64 percent market share) where Google.ru fails, largely because it's built around the Cyrillicalphabet and recognizes Russian grammar and inflection. Among the other Google-beating local search...
Most of these languages don't use the Cyrillicalphabet which is not, as often perceived, the cause of search engines' difficulties in indexing Russian -- rather, it's the morphology, or shape and structure of the language.
The character set is like the alphabet you are using on the page. Someone writing in English will use a standard alphabet set (a, b, c.plus numerals (1, 2, 3.and some special characters (! That means when they installed their browser, it probably...