Search engines & SEO

Yandex enhances the functionality of Yandex.Market with cost-per-action advertising

November 19, 2014

Yandex, which operates the largest Russian e-commerce comparison shopping platform, is now offering online stores a new model for listing their products on Yandex.Market. Online stores can now enable checkout functionality for their products directly on the Yandex.Market site and Yandex will adopt a Cost Per Action (CPA) model for purchases made in this way. …

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One year after launch, Yandex’s browser attracts 10 million users

October 2, 2013

Yandex.Browser, a free web browser developed by Russia’s leading search engine, Yandex, has 10 million weekly active users one year after its launch on October 1, 2012, as reported by Yandex. Integrated with the Yandex search engine, the Yandex.Browser project uses open-source software WebKit and Chromium. Yandex asserted that the site gained a five percent …

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Yandex launches image-based search and streamlines targeting for ad campaigns

November 19, 2014

Yandex, Russia’s search giant, now enables its users to surf the web for images that are similar or identical to the ones that they have uploaded. The Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported last week, citing Alexander Krainov, who is in charge of Yandex’s computer vision technology department, that users can now enjoy this function …

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Kremlin meets with Internet industry leaders to discuss self-regulation

September 10, 2013

Last Friday, the First Deputy Director of the Presidential Administration, Vyacheslav Volodin, met with representatives of Russian media and Internet companies. Among the participants were top managers of leading Internet and media companies operating in Russia, including Arkady Volozh, the CEO of search engine giant Yandex, Maëlle Gavet, CEO of major e-commerce site Ozon.ru, and …

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Yandex launches new beta version of its Islands interactive search feature

November 19, 2014

Last week, Russian search giant Yandex released the tri-lingual beta version of its Islands, search snippets aimed at improving search results and helping users find solutions to specific problems by delivering results in the form of interactive blocks. According to Yandex, the new feature offers a “shortcut to users’ ultimate search goals,” making it possible …

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Google under scrutiny by Russian authorities for tax evasion and illegitimate data transfers

November 19, 2014

A prominent Russian legislator has censured Google for shifting its Russian tax burden to local contractors – just weeks after Google and other US Internet companies were accused of avoiding taxes in countries like France, Italy, and the UK. Ruslan Gattarov, a senator heading the committee for information policy of the Council of the Federation …

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Mail.Ru stops cooperation with Google, switches over fully to proprietary search engine

July 3, 2013

This past Monday, LSE-listed Russian Internet company Mail.Ru Group announced that all user queries on its Search Mail.Ru service will be handled by its proprietary search engine. Previously, more than half of the queries – mostly international ones – were serviced by Google. The actual development of the company’s search engine began as early as …

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New anti-piracy law for video content shocks the industry

June 26, 2013

Last week the Russian parliament passed a new law against movie piracy on the Internet, which will take effect on August 1, 2013 if signed by the President. The new regulation allows copyright holders to file lawsuits against websites violating their intellectual property. The court will issue a warrant to block the website if the violating …

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Yandex tests new search features on its Turkish version

June 25, 2013

Earlier this month, Russian search giant Yandex announced the launch of new, interactive search snippets called “Islands.” In contrast to previous launches of new features, this time the company decided not to try launching in its home market — Russia and Russian-speaking countries of the former Soviet Union — but to instead roll it out …

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Yandex search appears in newest versions of iOS and Mac OS X

June 19, 2013

Apple’s operating systems iOS 7 for mobile and Mac OS X Mavericks for laptops and desktops, which were introduced to developers last week, allow users from Russia, some other countries of the former Soviet Union, and Turkey, to choose Yandex as the default search engine. The news was confirmed by the Russian company’s International Media …

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Yandex offers €150,000 grant to Germany-based Wikidata to fine-tune its algorithm with “huge body of data”

June 17, 2013

Earlier this month, Russian search giant Yandex announced that it has provided a €150,000 grant to Wikidata, a non-profit organization that is developing a knowledge database with structured information obtained from Wikipedia articles. Launched in October 2012 by Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikidata is creating a huge database about different objects, people, things, and phenomena, and how …

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