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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Yandex Reports Revenue Up 37% In Q4, Ad Network Revenue Nearly Doubles
Russian search giant Yandex reported a strong Q4 2013 today, with overall revenue up 37 percent from Q4 2012 and continued growth in text-based advertising. Take away revenue from its payment platform, Yandex.Money, and the Y-o-Y revenue growth would b…
Facebook Gives Yandex Access To Its Firehose In Return For Improved Presentation Of Its Own Content
Yandex has announced that it has signed a deal with Facebook which will give the leading search engine in Russia access to the Facebook firehose for “public” content published in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, other CIS countries and Turkey, where Yandex also operates. Content will be available for…
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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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Yandex Introduces Atom Concept for Personalised Content
Today Yandex introduced a new technology concept called Atom that enables websites to use Yandex’s search history to show personalised content to visitors.
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Yandex Introduces Atom Concept for Personalised Content
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 Leads Search Industry Towards more Personalisation
Yandex now looks at real time changes to make search even more personalised, they might be leading the industry into the next phase of personalisation.
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Yandex Leads Search Industry Towards more Personalisation
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
A 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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