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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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Why Yandex still beats Google in Russia

October 11, 2017

Last week Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian search giant and Google’s archrival on the Russian market, celebrated its 20th anniversary. Why is it so popular among Russians? Yandex is more than a company; it’s a matter of national pride. Russians like to wear clothing by major international and American brands, but when it comes to online services, they go local. In …

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Yandex’s new machine translation combines neural and statistical approaches for superior results

September 14, 2017

Today Yandex.Translate launched a hybrid machine translation system that combines neural and statistical approaches to machine translation to deliver our users an even higher quality translation that utilizes the complementary strengths of both translation models. The new system first translates users’ queries using both a statistical and a neural machine translation model.  Next, CatBoost, our gradient …

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Yandex releases new AI-based search algorithm

August 24, 2017

Earlier this week Yandex, the Russian search giant, released a new search algorithm inspired by neural networks to better understand users’ intent and handle long-tail queries. The new algorithm is named after Korolyov, the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer in the 1950s and 1960s. ‘Korolyov’ significantly improves upon its predecessor, ‘Palekh,’ the neural network-inspired algorithm …

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Yandex releases Yandex.Radar, a new search traffic and browser usage analytics tool

August 9, 2017

Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian search company, has just announced  Yandex.Radar, a new analytics tool that provides webmasters with accurate search engine and browser usage data available for the Internet market in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Turkey. Yandex.Radar allows webmasters to quickly and easily segment search engine and browser usage data by device type and operating system. For example, …

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Mail.Ru Group and Yandex announce new mapping and advertising features for local businesses

July 30, 2017

Now local businesses can display prices, opening hours, rankings and other details about their activity in Yandex Maps, the mapping tool of the Russian search giant. These features (which have been available only to Android users) will help users identify and compare appropriate cafés, hotels, or any other outlet listed on the maps. This is not …

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Most requests to remove online content come from Russia, Google says

July 24, 2017

Russia has come out on top of a ranking of government requests to have online content removed or blocked, according to Google’s latest Transparency Report. Last year, the Russian authorities filed more than 13,000 requests with the search engine to have online content on Google platforms removed, including on YouTube. Compared to 2015, the number of requests …

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Yandex’s co-founder Arkady Volozh discusses monopoly, Google, Ukraine, censorship, and robots

June 3, 2017

Arkady Volozh, the co-founder of Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian Internet giant, doesn’t like giving interviews to the media. However, he made an exception this week, following the recent settlement between Google and Russia’s Antimonopoly Service over a lawsuit brought by Yandex. Speaking to Anastasia Golitsyna, a correspondent for the business daily Vedomosti, Volozh answered questions …

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Yandex’s Ukrainian offices searched by security service

June 1, 2017

Two weeks after the Ukrainian authorities banned leading Russian Internet sites as part of sanctions affecting 468 Russian legal entities, Yandex announced that the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) conducted searches at the company’s offices in Kiev and Odessa. Yandex.Ukraine management and employees are accused of having gathered personal data of Ukrainian users and transmitted them …

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