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Google, Yandex and antimonopoly authority reach settlement on Android in Russia

April 17, 2017

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) announced today the end of a two-year legal procedure with the involved parties reaching a voluntary settlement in a Moscow arbitration court. “The settlement will help eliminate the violations of the antimonopoly legislation previously detected and will ensure competition on markets of mobile applications, especially mobile search,” stated the FAS. In a case launched in February 2015 by …

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Yandex’s news service almost blind to mass anti-corruption protests

March 29, 2017

On Sunday, as Russia was witnessing mass anti-corruption protests, Yandex’s local news feed for Moscow prominently featured trivialities such as weather reports and promotions for the city’s “Spring Festival.” On the national level, protests were overshadowed by news like Russia’s reaction to Kiev banning its Eurovision contestant, reports The Moscow Times. It’s no secret that …

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Yandex reports 27% revenue growth in 2016, claims 55% market share

February 16, 2017

The NASDAQ-listed Russian Internet search giant Yandex today announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year ended December 31, 2016. In 2016, the company’s revenues amounted to 75.9 billion ($1,251.7 million), up 27% compared with FY 2015. Its net income of reached 6.8 billion rubles ($111.8 million), down 30%, with a net …

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Yandex launches machine intelligence and research division

February 11, 2017

Earlier this week Yandex, the leading Internet search company in Russian-language countries, announced the creation of its new “Machine Intelligence and Research (MIR) Division.” This division is defined as a “centralized, cross-functional unit to accelerate innovation and unify [Yandex’s] core machine learning technologies.” The MIR division will also transfer research from various Yandex research teams into …

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Yandex’s ‘Extract’ is an AI-based solution for business to track of business critical information

August 16, 2017

Earlier this month Yandex Data Factory, a division of the Russian search giant, unveiled ‘Extract,’ a new solution to search and track of business-critical information. One of Extract’s first use case involves Russia’s central bank, which needs to find all cash-loan providers represented online in order to check their compliance with regulations. To address this needs, …

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Top trending Yandex searches 2016

December 29, 2016

As in year’s past, Russian Search Marketing is glad to share research on the Yandex 2016 top trending searches by category. The top search categories include events, people, premieres, media, and even memes. The top Yandex searches for 2016 show a mix of both domestic and international topics, many of which you readers likely searched …

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Yandex.Taxi launches in Ukraine

March 2, 2017

In late October Yandex, the Russian search giant, launched taxi booking service Yandex.Taxi in Ukraine. The service – which operates exclusively in partnership with taxi companies – is available exclusively in Kyiv (Kiev), but Yandex plans to expand it beyond the Ukrainian capital. “Our next targets are Odessa, Kharkov (Kharkiv) and Dnipro [previously known as Dnepropetrovsk or …

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Intento aims to build “the Google for IM and chat bot content”

July 13, 2020

As instant messengers (IM) are getting increased traction — even more than the classic Internet and social networks for certain user categories — Intento offers a new way to explore their content, which is generally ignored by traditional search engines. The startup claims to have developed “the only automatic crawl-and-search engine indexing the content of …

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Yandex launches global partnership program to preinstall its apps in Android-powered devices

October 12, 2016

Yandex, the Russian search giant, is launching today a global partnership program for Android handset manufacturers and telecom operators, covering 15 countries. The move is coming as Yandex is seeking ways to get more traction in mobile, where it is loosing its leadership to Google on the Russian market. Manufacturers of Android handsets and telecom operators are …

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Yandex reveals the early results of the ‘right to be forgotten’

March 26, 2016

Since Russia’s new law on the “right to be forgotten” took effect on January 1, 2016, Yandex — Russia’s most popular Internet search engine — has received 3,600 takedown requests from 1,348 people. The company says it has complied with 27 percent of these requests, rejecting the rest. Yandex says its high rejection rate has …

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Yandex launches “hyper-local weather forecasting” and “automated information agency”

February 9, 2016

Yandex announced yesterday the launch of ‘Meteum,’ a new machine learning-based technology for “hyper-local and super-accurate weather forecasting.” “This new technology collects a massive volume of data about past forecasts made by external providers like WRF or Foreca, and compares them with the historical weather conditions to figure out the difference between what was forecasted and what happened …

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