Пресс-релизы / internet

Internet, July 15, 2009. Yandex.Direct has completed testing its Light interface. The new interface does not require any special knowledge about contextual advertising or skills to place ads. Advertisers can choose which version – the new Light or the old Professional – they want to use.

Internet, July 8, 2009. Yandex.Maps now offers its users an opportunity to view their routes (GPS tracks) on a computer and email them to others. Using the new functionality, people can share their walking or driving routes with friends.

Internet, July 2, 2009. Yandex launches beta version of Punto Switcher for Mac OS X. Having installed the company’s automated keyboard layout switcher, Apple computers owners can forget about what alphabet, Cyrillic or Latin, they are using.

Internet, June 30, 2009. Yandex.Dictionaries updated the latest version of ABBYY Lingvo Online Dictionary. In addition to word translations, the service now offers pronunciation samples by professional native speakers.

Internet, June 30, 2009. Mozilla Foundation rolled out a new version of their Firefox browser. The 3.5 version for Russian language users has Yandex as the default search engine.

Internet, June 19, 2009. Today, Yandex celebrates the first graduation at Yandex School of Data Analysis founded in 2007. This year, over 30 students graduate from the two-year Master program. Some of them will be offered to join Yandex.

Internet, June 15, 2009. Yandex.Money, the proprietary online payment system, now offers a new way of protecting user payments: the new option “Strengthened Authorization” allows users not to enter their Yandex.Money password any longer. Now, instead of the password, users can enter a one-time code while making their online transfers.

Internet, June 10, 2009. Yandex updates its free web hosting service Narod.ru. The Builder – a multi-tool for creating websites – has been rolled out for beta testing on the service. This tool allows users to create state-of-the-art web resources and publish them using a third level domain name (acme.narod.ru), or a personal domain name (acme.ru).

Internet, June 3, 2009. MoiKrug – a professional networking, recruitment and employment service – catalogues employers. The service presents a new category Companies, which shows pages for each employer with information about open vacancies, current employees and their career moves. The MoiKrug users can contact people working in a certain company to find out what they need to know first hand.

Internet, June 2, 2009. Yandex.Maps offers detailed maps of every administrative center in Ukraine to help users navigate the streets in any of the largest Ukrainian cities.

Internet, May 29, 2009. The only Yandex Cup Winners’ Cup game took place today. Alexey Tcharykov won the title of the “Winner of the Cup Winners’ Cup”.

Internet, May 28, 2009. Yandex releases a new version of its Yandex.Mail service for beta testing. The updated Yandex.Mail offers every feature needed for online communication today.

Internet, May 26, 2009. Yandex notifies its users of infected webpages to protect their computers from malicious content.

Internet, May 14, 2009. Yandex launches an information service tracking changes in search patterns of web users. To learn which events or things are gaining popularity in a certain region, please, visit interes.yandex.ru.

Internet, May 5, 2009. Yandex launches location-aware search for mobile devices. Now, mobile web users do not have to ask around when they need to find the nearest McDonalds outlet, drugstore or coffee shop.

Internet, April 29, 2009. Summer is coming and soon pallid urbanites will start flocking to the countryside. For the start of the summer season, Yandex has made a timetable of local trains in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Veliky Novgorod, Tyumen and Nizhny Tagil.

Internet, April 24, 2009. Yandex makes its web statistics analysis tool Metrica available to every* website owner or webmaster. Yandex.Metrica allows customers to measure traffic, analyse user behavior and evaluate the efficiency of advertising campaigns.

Internet, April 23, 2009. Yandex launches a program to support websites offering local content. Any website can create a special unit (widget) that users can embed within their personalized Yandex front page. The most interesting and popular regional widgets will be offered right on www.yandex.ru.

Internet, April 15, 2009. Yandex.Maps launched integrated world map with integrated search.

Internet, March 24, 2009. Yandex releases mobile version of the Ya.Online (“I’m.Online”) application for Windows Mobile, Symbian and Java platforms. Starting today, the application featuring both mobile mail service and instant messaging is now available to most mobile users.