Пресс-релизы / Yandex

Internet, September 4, 2007. Today, Yandex.Maps has launched a mobile application. Now all Yandex.Maps options, like house and street search, traffic jams in Moscow, satellite view are accessible through mobile phones. Installing mobile maps is as easy as downloading a game or a ringtone: all you need to do is to enter http://m.ya.ru on your phone and to download the application.

Internet, August 31, 2007. Right before the Day of Knowledge - September 1, the day the school year starts - Yandex launched school.yandex.ru, the homepage for schoolchildren. Largely, the goal of the project is to provide all school students and their teachers with a convenient internet entry.

Internet, August 27, 2007. Yandex launches email service for smartphones, communicators, and PDAs. The service is compatible with all modern types of mobile browsers. Gadget owners will experience a «compact» email service at the usual address mail.yandex.ru (or, yet shorter, mail.ya.ru), and for those who use a regular browser, the service is available at pda.mail.ya.ru.

Internet, August 23, 2007. Yandex.Direct started open testing of Yandex user behavioural targeting. The new technology will allow the users to see mostly the ads that they are interested in, and the advertisers will be able to pinpoint their target audience.

Internet, August 1, 2007. Yandex starts open testing of the new, tenth version of their homepage today. Anyone interested can find out what Yandex will look like in the near future at next.yandex.ru.

Moscow, July 25, 2007. Yandex, Russia's largest Internet portal and search engine, today announced the opening of the Yandex School of Data Analysis, a two-year Master’s-level program led by Dr. Ilya Muchnik, Ph.D., a world class scientist and professor of computer science at Rutgers University.

Internet, July 4, 2007. Yandex issued the information bulletin ”Context advertising in Russia”. The analysis is based on data from Yandex.Direct, the first and the largest system for context advertising in Runet. The data cover the period from January 2006 to June 2007. The full text of the analysis is available at http://download.yandex.ru/company/yandex_on_context_advertising_summer_2007.pdf.

Internet, July 2, 2007. Today users of MoiKrug service at Yandex became full members of Vedomosti newspaper Readers Club. Now anybody who has an account at MoiKrug can access all options of the newspaper's website, including discussion boards, without having to have a new registration at www.vedomosti.ru.

Internet, June 15, 2007. Yandex released the study ”Traffic jams in Moscow”. The data are based on the statistics from Yandex.Maps service and cover the period from spring 2006 to spring 2007. The full text of the analysis is available here: http://download.yandex.ru/company/yandex_on_moscow_traffic_jams_summer_2007.pdf (available in russian only).

Internet, June 5, 2007. Yandex opened a development office in Kiev. The office is managed by two Ukrainian developers, Vyacheslav Pankratov and Rostislav Boruk.
The Kiev development office is the fifth office of Yandex

Internet, May 24, 2007. Yandex.Direct, context ad placement system, started accepting instant payments from Ukrainian webusers. From date, any advertiser, who has installed a ”wallet”-programme from Internet.Money payment system, can pay with hryvni for advertising campaign at Yandex, and at the websites participating in the Yandex Advertising Network.

Internet, May 22, 2007. Yandex features a satellite map of Moscow and Moscow region. Now it is possible to view Moscow and suburbs (Podmoscovye) in detail, down to individual buildings or cars.

Internet. May 21, 2007. Yandex web and blog search is now available right at LiveJournal, one of the largest blog hosting services in the Russian Internet. According to the agreement signed by Sup and Yandex companies, starting from date Yandex search engine is being installed at the LiveJournal.ru service.

Internet, April 27, 2007. Yandex blog Search now has an instrument for estimation and measurement of public opinion in the Internet — ”Pulse of Blogosphere”. The new service makes it possible to learn about how much different events and persons concern bloggers, the most active segment of the Internet audience.

Moscow, Russia – April 26, 2007 – Yandex, Russia’s largest Internet portal and search engine, today announced audited financial results for the year ended December 31, 2006. During the year, Yandex continued its rapid growth, experienced strong financial results and built on its successful platform.

Internet, April 12, 2007. From date, Yandex.News offers a new page for the news feature (selection of news related to one event). A combination of main facts, illustrations, and reference information creates three-dimensional representation of the news.

Internet, March 30, 2007. Yandex, Russia’s largest Internet portal and search engine, today announced that it is acquiring a stake in Yandex.Money from the PayCash Group. As a result of this transaction Yandex will become the sole owner of Yandex.Money, one of the leading Russia’s online payment systems.

Internet, March 29, 2007. From date, all contents of Krugosvet encyclopedia are available on the web pages of Yandex.Slovari (Yandex.Dictionaries).

Internet, March 27, 2007. Russia’s largest Internet portal and search engine, today announced that it has purchased MoiKrug.ru, the largest social network for Russian-speaking professionals. As part of the transaction, the founders of MoiKrug.ru as well as a significant number of managers and developers will join the Yandex team.

Internet, March 26, 2007. Yandex issued an information bulletin ”Online shopping in Russia”. The data presented in the study cover the period from February 2006 to February 2007. The full bulletin text is available at http://download.yandex.ru/company/yandex_on_ecommerce_spring_2007.pdf.