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Yandex

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Yandex is the leading search engine in Russia. Their search engine automatically searches all possible forms of a given word, takes into account the distance between the searched words within sentences and paragraphs, and searches documents in the major Cyrillic languages — Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian — as well as in English, French, and German.

“Yandex” is an acronym for the phrase “Yet Another Indexer.”

As of August 2008 Yandex had approximately 55% of the Russian search market, compared to Google’s 21%.

Milestones

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  Yandex acquired Mediaselling for $1.43M. (10/22/08)
  Posted 10/22/08 at 10:08am
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  Yandex acquired Moikrug. (3/31/07)
  Posted 5/20/08 at 1:18pm
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  Yandex received $5.3M in Series A funding. (4/00)
  Posted 5/20/08 at 1:22pm
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  Yandex added Elena Chebunina as Chief Accounting and Administrative Officer.
  Posted 5/20/08 at 1:00pm
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  Yandex added Alexei Tretiakov as Chief Sales and Business Development Officer.
  Posted 5/20/08 at 1:00pm
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  Yandex added Elena Kolmanovskaya as Chief Editor.
  Posted 5/20/08 at 1:00pm
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  Yandex added Dmitry Ivanov as Chief Product Officer.
  Posted 5/20/08 at 1:00pm
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  Yandex added Nilesh Lakhani as Chief Financial Officer.
  Posted 5/20/08 at 1:00pm
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  Yandex added Ilya Segalovich as Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer.
  Posted 5/20/08 at 1:00pm
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  Yandex added Arkady Volozh as Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer.
  Posted 5/20/08 at 1:00pm
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  Yandex added Mikhail Fadeev as Chief System Operations Officer.
  Posted 5/20/08 at 1:00pm
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  Yandex added Esther Dyson as Board.
  Posted 6/19/08 at 8:26pm
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  Yandex added Vish Makhijani as President & CEO, Yandex Labs.
  Posted 5/19/09 at 7:28am

Videos

Screenshots

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Products

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Yandex Search

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Above: Yandex Search Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 5/20/08

Yandex Targeted Advertising

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Traffic Analytics

Quantcast

Compete

Sources

1. Yandex Acquires Display Ad Firm Mediaselling (blog.quintura.com) [edit]
2. Russia's Yandex Acquires Biz Social Networking Site (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
3. Quintura Blog (blog.quintura.com) [edit]