Yandex Begins Purging Links From Its Rankings For Some Moscow Verticals

Yandex chose the Bynet Week conference in the city of Minsk in Belorus to announce that they have “Started to remove links gradually” from the Yandex MatrixNet algorithm for commercial queries in just the Moscow region. Alexander Sadovsky, Head of Web Search at Yandex, made the…

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The Global SEO & Content Marketing Landscape

Search unifies people across the globe, and search engines are the catalyst for making that connection. For global brands, optimizing for different search engines and different cultures increases awareness, visibility, traffic and conversions. Global S…

Yandex Does What Google Can’t: Provides Bitcoin Exchange Rates

How much is one US dollar in UK pounds? Google will give you a direct answer to that and many other currencies with the conversion tool that’s built into its search results. But when it comes to Bitcoin, Russian-based Yandex seems to have won the honor of being first to support conversion of…

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Yandex Posts Q3 2013 Revenue Growth Of 40 Percent

Russian search engine Yandex announced third quarter revenues this morning. The company saw strong growth for its overall business as well as for search-based advertising. Yandex said that total revenues grew roughly 40 percent vs. 2012. The vast major of the company’s revenue comes from…

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Russian Search Engine Yandex Gives Mobile App Developers Free Real-Time Analytics Tool

Russia’s largest search engine Yandex has released its Yandex Metrica for Apps, a free analytics solution available to mobile developers worldwide. According to the announcement, the new analytics tool has been designed to work on Android, iOS and Windows Phone platforms, providing real-time…

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In Memoriam: Ilya Segalovich, Search Engine Pioneer, Leader & Visionary

Ilya Segalovich, co-founder of Yandex, Russia’s largest search engine, was disconnected from life support on July 27. During routine cancer treatment, he unexpectedly slipped into a coma earlier in the week from which he did not recover. I had the honor of knowing Ilya personally. In addition…

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Yandex Q2 2013 Revenue Up 35% From This Time Last Year

Russian search engine giant Yandex released its Q2 2013 financial results today, reporting revenues at RUR 9.2 billion or $281.2 million, a 35 percent increase compared to their Q2 2012 report. According to the statement, Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh claimed, “Yandex delivered strong financial…

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Google No Longer Powering Russian Internet Company Searches As Mail.ru Takes All Queries In-House

Russian Internet company Mail.ru Group released an official announcement that they will be handling all queries made by Search Mail.ru users from here on out. According to TheNextWeb.com, Google previously powered 60 percent of the searches performed o…

Yandex Turns Up The Dial On Personalized Search

The Russian search engine Yandex has announced changes to how it presents personalized search results, saying that personalization is now based on what’s happening within a single search session. When the company launched personalized results late last year, it was based primarily on looking…

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Yandex Announces “Interactive Snippets” & SERP Redesign At Moscow Conference

Yandex has presented what it claims is a new concept in search engine results pages to a Russian audience at an online industry conference in Moscow. They’ve nicknamed the new concept “Islands,” but are describing it functionally as “Interactive Snippets” and the next step on from rich snippets. To…

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Yandex Interview with Ilya Segalovich at #ISS

ISSA fascinating ‘fireside chat’ type interview at ISS London 2013 with Ilya Segalovich being interviewed about Yandex’ development.

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Yandex Interview with Ilya Segalovich at #ISS

International Search Summit Keynote: Yandex Co-Founder & CTO Ilya Segalovich

Yandex is Russia’s leading search engine, besting even mighty Google in numbers of unique visitors in its home country. But did you know comScore also ranks it as the world’s fourth largest overall search engine, ahead of Bing in number of search requests processed? In part,…

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