Yandex

Yandex is a technology company that builds intelligent products and services powered by machine learning. The company's goal is to help consumers and businesses better navigate the online and offline world. Since 1997, Yandex has delivered world-class, locally relevant search and information services. Additionally, Yandex has developed market-leading on-demand transportation services, navigation products, and other mobile applications for millions of consumers across the globe. Yandex, which has 17 offices worldwide (as of Sept. 2017), has been listed on the NASDAQ since 2011.

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Yandex launches new SEM offer with enhanced auction model and ad relevance ranking

February 14, 2016

Yandex.Direct, Yandex’s pay-per-click advertising platform, is changing its auction system and introducing new ranking rules for paid search results. Starting tomorrow, instead of a generalized second-price auction (GSP), Yandex.Direct will be using a Vickery-Clarke-Groves (VGC) auction to serve ads in the premium positions on its search engine results page (SERP) and the SERPs of websites …

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Yandex launches multifunctional app for Android users in Russia

August 6, 2015

With more than 85% of the smartphone market in Russia, Android continues to be the country’s favourite operating system. The great variety of devices within a $200 price range supporting this platform, among other things, has contributed to Android’s popularity with Russians who are happy to compromise some of their smartphone’s technical quality, such as …

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Yandex announces Q1 2015 financial results

February 25, 2016

Moscow and Amsterdam, Netherlands – Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search provider in Russia, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015. “Despite a challenging macroeconomic environment, we delivered good top-line performance with text-based advertising on our own sites growing 14%. The number …

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Yandex predicts user ‘churn’ for one of the world’s most popular online games

February 26, 2016

Customer loyalty and satisfaction is crucial in community-based gaming, where every single player matters, and devoted, experienced gamers are especially valuable for the game. The Yandex big data unit, Yandex Data Factory, took game churn prediction – knowing how many gamers are likely to leave the game – to another level. Wargaming, an international MMOG developer, …

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Yandex announces fourth quarter and full-year 2014 financial results

February 26, 2016

Moscow and Amsterdam – Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search provider in Russia, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year ended December 31, 2014. “The company performed well in the fourth quarter and demonstrated another full year of excellent results, despite the difficult …

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Yandex launches parking app in Moscow

February 5, 2015

Moscow and Amsterdam – Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX) has released a new app that helps drivers in Moscow find a parking space and pay for the service without leaving their car. With the Yandex.Parking app, there is no need to drive the streets to find a parking spot or even leave your car to pay for it. The …

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Yandex to provide big data solutions to businesses

March 1, 2016

Moscow and Amsterdam – Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX), one of the largest European internet companies and the leading search provider in Russia, today announced it is embarking on a new B2B venture developing custom-made big data solutions for businesses – Yandex Data Factory. Yandex Data Factory, an international project with offices in Moscow and Amsterdam, will provide services …

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Yandex announces Q3 2014 financial results

October 23, 2014

Amsterdam and Moscow – Yandex (Nasdaq:YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search provider in Russia, today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2014. “Q3 was another strong quarter notable for an acceleration in growth of our owned and operated properties and excellent cost control,” said Arkady Volozh, …

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Yandex introduces personal recommendations to its music streaming service

November 19, 2014

Yandex has re-launched Yandex.Music, its music streaming service. The newly revamped service now offers a system of personal recommendations for Yandex.Music users to discover new songs and artists every day. Yandex.Music recommendations are based on users’ personal preferences, music that their friends on VK.com or Facebook listen to, as well as the latest new hits, …

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Yandex.Translate on iPhone and iPad translates offline

November 19, 2014

Translation apps on mobile devices are extremely helpful when people are travelling to countries where they don’t speak local language. However, most of translation apps have been working only over the internet, and their use might be quite paintful when in roaming with no good wi-fi connection abroad. Yandex.Translate, an app launched two years ago, now …

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Yandex launches guide to urban businesses and organizations

November 19, 2014

Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX) is launching a service for search and selection of companies and organisations in Russia’s cities. Called Yandex.City, it helps users choose restaurants, beauty salons and a wide range of other businesses whose services they might need. The service, currently available only in Russian, is accessible on city.yandex.ru, as well as on applications for …

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What you see is what you get on Yandex

November 19, 2014

Reverse image search – or searching not by words but by visual content – has just become available to users of Yandex.com. This feature works on computer vision technology created by developers at Yandex. We’ve named it “Sibir” (Russian for “Siberia”), from the acronym CBIR, which stands for “content-based image retrieval”. The technology transforms pictures, submitted by users …

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