Search engines & SEO

Mozilla makes Yandex the default search engine for Firefox in Turkey

March 27, 2015 February 25, 2016

Earlier this week Yandex.Turkey and Mozilla Corporation announced that Yandex will be the default search engine for Turkish language versions of Firefox on mobile and desktop, starting with Firefox’s next update, planned for this week. “The agreement is part of Mozilla’s new strategy to promote choice by making locally relevant search engines the default in various …

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Yandex announces fourth quarter and full-year 2014 financial results

February 18, 2015 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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Russian man sues Google for reading his private emails

February 17, 2015 February 26, 2016

A Russian man has filed a lawsuit against search giant Google, accusing it of violating his privacy by showing him advertisements based on comments made in private e-mails. Anton Burkov, from Yekaterinburg, filed the suit in a Moscow court when advertisements for French hotels and visa services began appearing alongside Google search results — shortly after discussing a trip to Strasbourg with friends.

Morgan Stanley report uses questionable methodology to claim Google has surpassed Yandex in Russia

February 16, 2015 February 26, 2016

According to a report released last week by Morgan Stanley, Russian mobile and web users are increasingly favoring Google over local search engine Yandex. Referring to polls taken between 2012 and 2014, Morgan Stanley analysts assert that the US search engine overtook Yandex in popularity in 2014. In December, according to the surveys, there were …

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Yandex launches parking app in Moscow

February 5, 2015 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 purchases software tool for taxis

February 5, 2015 March 2, 2017

Yandex is purchasing Ros.Taxi, a software program for the management of taxis. It allows taxi businesses to take orders, coordinate and lead the work of drivers. Included within the Ros.Taxi brand is a mobile application called Taximeter, which determines the cost of a journey and provides drivers communication with dispatchers. Together with Yandex.Taxi – an …

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Yandex.ru becomes top US website

January 28, 2015 January 28, 2015

The average American knows about Buzzfeed, Home Depot, and Vimeo; their sites are gaining about as much traffic in the US as Yandex.ru, which most Americans wouldn’t recognize. According to the most recent results from SimilarWeb, two major Russian websites Yandex and Vkontakte ranked in the top 100 US websites for 2014. Vkontakte, Russia’s leading social …

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What do Yandex users want to look like? Russians’ image search queries

January 27, 2015 March 1, 2016

The average person aims to stay up to speed with the most recent clothing styles and haircuts. From country to country, styles vary and the ideal image is often rooted in cultural influence. Still, a popular movie or a celebrity influences worldwide trends uniting people across the globe to wear a particular pair of sunglasses …

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Yandex School of Data Analysis joins CERN experiment

January 16, 2015 March 1, 2016

Earlier this week Yandex, the Russian search giant, announced that its School of Data Analysis (YSDA) will take part in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment. The project, which is one of four large particle detector experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, collects data to study the interactions of heavy particles, called b-hadrons. As a …

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Russian Internet users’ most popular topics in 2014 according to Yandex, Vkontakte and Google

January 8, 2015 March 1, 2016

In the middle of December, Russian internet search engine Yandex published a study that analyzed users’ queries to learn which people, events and phenomena stirred their interest the most in 2014. The Winter Olympics in Sochi came in first, followed by the events in Ukraine and Crimea, the Ebola epidemic, the change to wintertime (this fall Russia switched …

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Google shuts down engineering office in Russia: Much ado about nothing?

December 12, 2014 March 1, 2016

Much speculation appeared today in the media following Google’s decision to move about one hundred of its engineers from its Russia office to other locations. A major US site thus suggested that Google’s move could be related to the “changing climate in Russia [which] may lead more Internet companies to move their operations to other …

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Yandex acquires e-commerce recommendation service, Runa Capital celebrates first Russian exit

December 10, 2014 March 1, 2016

Yandex, the Russian search giant, has acquired a browser application developed by Metabar, a portfolio company of Runa Capital. The financial details of the deal have not been disclosed, but Runa reported that it “provided a multiple return on investment.” Christened “Sovetnik” (Russian for “advisor”), this browser extension helps users find the best offer for …

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