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Google fined in Russia for refusing to censor search results

December 13, 2018

Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, has fined Google for failing to comply with a law that requires online search engines to purge any hyperlinks to materials that are banned in Russia. Google has refused to connect to Federal State Information System (FGIS) where these websites are listed. The fine amounts to 500,000 rubles ($7,537 at today’s …

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Google faces fine for refusing to censor search results in Russia

December 4, 2018

On November 26 Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, announced administrative charges against Google  for failing to comply with a law that requires online search engines to purge any hyperlinks to materials that are banned in Russia. Google has also refused to connect to the federal information system where these websites are listed. For violating …

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With 27 offices worldwide, Yandex demonstrated strong growth in Q3 2018

October 31, 2018

Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian search giant, announced its quarterly earnings  yesterday, demonstrating an impressive growth. Thus, in Q3 2018, the company’s revenues jumped to 32.6 billion rubles ($496.6 million), up 39% compared with Q3 2017, while its net income reached 4.8 billion ($72.7 million) a whopping 459% increase year-on-year (net income margin: 14.6%; adjusted net income 6.1 …

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Yandex caves to Russia’s federal censor in dispute over Internet piracy

August 30, 2018

Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, threatened to block Yandex’s video service, following an August 24 verdict by the Moscow City Court ordering the website to remove all hyperlinks to pirated content from its search results. Earlier this month, several television stations filed lawsuits against Yandex, where links to pirated copies of their content …

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Yandex consolidates leadership on Russian search market

August 1, 2018

Yandex, the Russian search giant, has maintained its leadership on the domestic Internet market, with a 55% market share on all devices in July 2018, up 1 percentage point in one year. The numbers have just been published by Yandex, whose tool Yandex.Radar monitors search market share and browser trends in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Turkey. …

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Yandex leaks internal Google Docs apparently shared by Russian banks, state officials, and Internet trolls

July 6, 2018

On the evening of July 4, Russian Internet users realized that the search engine Yandex has been indexing a surprising array of information stored on Google Docs, including files containing passwords, credit card numbers, and corporate documents. Yandex’s press service says the company’s actions were perfectly legitimate, but within hours of Wednesday’s discovery the search …

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Annual search trends on Yandex.Maps

July 3, 2018

Every day, the Yandex.Maps app responds to more than a million search queries made in Russia. Nearly half of them are searches for various organizations: where the nearest ATM or produce stand is? what’s the fastest route to the civil records office?  where a given market?  church, or museum is located, etc? By looking at …

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Age, sex and online behavior in Russia

March 31, 2018

Over 71 million people over 18 years-old use the Internet in Russia, and the daily audience of Yandex’s Advertising Network serves about 60 million users. Every day visitors to sites in the Yandex Advertising Network see about 4.3 billion ads, 8 millions of which convert. Yandex, the number one search engine in Russia, has studied …

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Rosy 2017: Increased market share, revenues and profit for Yandex

February 16, 2018

Yesterday Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian search giant, announced its financial results for the Q4 and FY 2017. The last quarter of the year saw the company’s revenues reach 27.9 billion rubles ($483.7 million), up 26% from Q4 2016, while its adjusted net income jumped to 5.2 billion rubles ($91.1 million), up 62% year-on-year. (The inflation rate in …

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WSJ: “Nasdaq-listed Yandex is Russia’s Uber and Google combined”

February 1, 2018

“Stock investors can’t invest in Uber, but they can invest in Nasdaq-listed Yandex, owner of Russia’s top ride-hailing platform,” writes WSJ reporter Stephen Wilmot, referring to the Yandex.Taxi platform. The Russian search engine recently agreed with Uber to merge their respective taxi-hailing and food delivery services in Russia and neighboring countries – a move that has provided …

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Yandex’s launches AI assistant with “near-human levels of speech recognition accuracy”

October 11, 2017

Defining itself as “a technology company that builds intelligent products and services powered by machine learning,” Yandex has announced the launch of a conversational intelligent assistant that is “not restricted to a set of predefined scenarios.” Dubbed ‘Alice,’ this new AI assistant integrates the ability to “carry free-flowing ‘chit-chat’ conversations with users that can surprise …

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