Mhm. A suggestion for the staff members: Professionalism should be adhered to, along with diplomacy, courtesy, and patience. Additionally, sharp disagreements should be de-escalated, rather than intensified and turned into a heated debate.
Yeah, it’s not helpful and unnecessarily wastes time. Instead, responses should be akin to this: “We have not known of this search engine’s existence,” or “We did not add this search engine for x reason.”
The “Company x is based in Russia, so it shouldn’t be used!” is just completely wrong. We should not just be skeptical and cautious about products from Russia, China, Iran, and others, but all products in general, like Google for example.