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Websiteyandex.ru
Blogcompany.yandex.ru...
Twitter@yandex
CategorySearch
Phone+7 495 739-70-00
Email
Employees3,500
Founded9/97
DescriptionRussian Search Engine

Offices

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People

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Chief Technology Officer, Yandex Labs
Chief System Operations Officer
Chief Sales and Business Development Officer
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Chief Editor
Board
Independent Director
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Former People

Chief Financial Officer
Chief Accounting and Administrative Officer
President & CEO, Yandex Labs
Web User Interface Developer

Acquisitions

Total$39.4M
SPB Software, 11/11 $38M
The Tweeted Times, 8/11
Loginza, 1/11
WebVisor, 12/10
Mediaselling, 10/08 $1.43M
Moikrug, 3/07

Investments

Blekko 9/11
Vizi Labs 9/10
Face.com 9/10

Funding

Competitors

Tags

search-engine, russia, search, find, information, portal, webmail

Yandex

Yandex is an internet technologies company that operates in Russia and CIS. It is the largest Russian and seventh-largest world internet search engine. “Yandex” is an acronym for the phrase “Yet Another Indexer.”

As of December 2010, Yandex had approximately 64.1% of the Russian search market, compared to Google’s 21.5% (www.liveinternet.ru).

Yandex’s mission is to give the answer to the user anytime and anywhere. Company provides its services for desktop and mobile users and develops embedded solutions as well.

The company specializes on highly-targeted sophisticated web search and information retrieval services based on world-class technologies like a proprietary machine-learning method MatrixNet.

Yandex provides localized services for its users, as well as enables them to search for websites in other languages.

In addition to web search the company offers dozens of free online services, granting access to extensive local, national and international information. The services include maps; traffic jams information; photo hosting; news service; blog search; spam-free email and many others.

In 2009, Yandex’s revenue totaled to $278m. Contextual ads accounted for 86% of the company’s revenues. Display ads comprised 11%.

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Screenshots

Yandex screenshot
Above: Yandex
Uploaded: 6/2/10
Yandex screenshot
Above: Yandex.com
Uploaded: 6/8/10

Products

People's Map
Yandex Advertising Network
Yandex Search
Yandex for mobile
Yandex.Amenities
Yandex.Blog Search
Yandex.Catalog
Yandex.Direct
Yandex.Fotki
Yandex.Images
Yandex.Job
Yandex.Mail
Yandex.Mail for domain
Yandex.Maps
Yandex.Market
Yandex.Metrics
Yandex.Money
Yandex.Music
Yandex.Narod (Yandex People)
Yandex.News
Yandex.Realty
Yandex.TV
Yandex.Timetable
Yandex.Traffic
Yandex.Video
Yandex.Weather
Yandex.Widgets

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Sources

  1. Russian Search Giant Yandex Acquires Mobile Software Developer SPB For $38 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Russian Search Giant Yandex Acquires Social News Startup ‘The Tweeted Times’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Yandex Acquires Single Sign-In Service Loginza (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Yandex acquires WebVisor’s behavior analysis technology, team (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. Yandex Acquires Display Ad Firm Mediaselling (blog.quintura.com) [edit]
  6. Russia's Yandex Acquires Biz Social Networking Site (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  7. Search Engine Blekko Raises $30 Million From Russian Search Giant Yandex And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. Cap Funding Report [edit]
  9. Facial Recognition Tech Startup Face.com Raises $4.3M From Yandex And Other (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. Quintura Blog (blog.quintura.com) [edit]
  11. Yandex Buys Smilink (company.yandex.com) [edit]
  12. Yandex Acquires GIS Technologies (company.yandex.com) [edit]
  13. Yandex Offers Golden Share to Sberbank (invest-iq.com) [edit]
  14. Yandex Follows up WebVisor Deal With Acquisition of Loginza (invest-iq.com) [edit]
  15. Yandex Follows up WebVisor Deal With Acquisition of Loginza (invest-iq.com) [edit]
  16. Russian Search Giant Yandex Seeks To Raise Up To $1 Billion In IPO (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  17. Russian Search Giant Yandex Prices $1.2B IPO At $20 To $22 Per Share (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  18. Yandex to invest in Russian and foreign startups (ewdn.com) [edit]
  19. Yandex history, from startup to IPO (ewdn.com) [edit]
  20. Yandex invests in personal finance startup (ewdn.com) [edit]
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