Search engines & SEO

Yandex redesigns search result page with launch of interactive snippets

November 19, 2014

Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX), Russia’s largest search engine, has announced significant changes to its Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) with the launch of interactive snippets called ‘Islands’. Islands has been designed to provide a new level of user experience, responding to web searches with solutions rather than just information. As such, it will speed up the link …

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Yandex updates its personalized search feature to track users’ momentary interests

June 3, 2013

The Russian search giant Yandex has announced an updated version of its Personal Search feature in the newly-launched search platform “Dublin.” The main difference from the previous version, introduced in December 2012, is that now a user’s search profile is updated every few seconds instead of once a day. Yandex claims that more than a …

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Context ads managing service ReachLocal enters Russian market

May 29, 2013

The US-based Internet company ReachLocal, which specializes in context advertising tools, has launched a Russian subsidiary, Digit.ru reported this Monday. In its first year on the Russian market the company expects to post €10 million in revenue, said Nataliya Matusova, general manager of ReachLocal’s Russian branch, at a press-conference in Moscow. Although its Moscow subsidiary was …

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Mail.Ru Group invests $1.5m in visual search provider Cortiсa

May 29, 2013

Leading Russian Internet group Mail.Ru Group announced yesterday that it has poured $1.5 million into the Israeli visual search developer Cortica. The funding is part of a larger round led by other undisclosed investors; it brings the total amount attracted by Cortica to more than $12.5 million. The investment in Cortica allows Mail.Ru Group to …

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Google shuts down Quickoffice R&D offices in Russia and Ukraine

May 16, 2013

Google has cancelled its contract with Doctor Mobile, the developer of the mobile applications for the Quickoffice service. Google acquired Quickoffice, which is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, in June last year for an undisclosed sum. Now, less than a year later, Google is shutting down two of its offices, namely in Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Kharkiv (Ukraine), where more than …

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Google slow to penetrate Russia: battles with Yandex, lawsuit vs. government over content filtering

May 16, 2013

After many years spent unsuccessfully challenging local search giant Yandex for the Russian market, Google appears to have re-thought its strategy – though still not always finding common ground with Russian authorities. In an interview with news agency RIA Novosti earlier this week, Google Russia CEO Yuliya Solovyova stated that the corporation considers Russia a …

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Yandex announces its summer school for startups – Tolstoy Summer Camp

November 19, 2014

Yandex’s new startup accelerator, Tolstoy Summer Camp, opens for young entrepreneurs and internet specialists who would like to learn how to start their own startup. The program will bring together young web developers, UI designers and project managers with an idea, but without resources to implement it and present it to investors. We also welcome …

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Yandex develops gesture-based newswire app for connected TV

April 22, 2013

The California branch of the Russian Internet operator Yandex has developed a prototype software application that enables users to read news from social networks on their televisions. According to a company statement, users can manage the process by physically gesturing. Tatyana Komarova, a Yandex spokesperson, said that the experiment was a joint effort by Yandex Labs …

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Yandex equals Russia’s first TV channel in advertising revenues

September 13, 2016

Illustrating the trend of moving online in the Russian advertising market, search engine giant Yandex saw its advertising revenues equal those of First Channel (“Pervyi Telekanal”), the country’s leading TV channel, for the first time last year. According to First Channel’s annual financial results released earlier this week, the TV channel generated 28.2 billion rubles …

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Rostelecom to breathe new life into national search engine project

April 5, 2013

Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom is said to be working on a new search engine, CNews.ru reports. According to the publication’s sources in one of the Russian Internet companies, the national search portal has been christened Sputnik, with the corresponding domain already registered to Rostelecom’s subsidiary RTCOMM. The Internet search market in Russia is dominated …

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Yandex revamps its homepage

November 19, 2014

Yandex (NASDQ:YNDX) today unveiled its newly redesigned homepage. The most relevant information is now highly visible and easily accessible in a more streamlined format. The homepage now has less text and feels airier making it easier to navigate. Graphics have replaced some text blocks, and related items have been grouped together – for example, news …

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New Yandex Finnish data center to enjoy cool climate and trim costs

November 19, 2014

Russian search giant Yandex is getting ready to build a data center in neighboring Finland, its third such facility outside Russia. The project is slated to break ground in August on an 8-hectare parcel 60km north of Helsinki that Yandex purchased from the Mäntsälä municipality for 1.5 million euros, Tatyana Komarova of Yandex’s press service …

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