Пресс-релизы / search

Internet, January 15, 2007. Starting today, LiveJournal paid accounts can be purchased using Yandex.Money. With the official agreement between SUP and the Yandex.Money payment system, the owners of LJ blogs now have a means of guaranteed instant paymentfor LiveJournal services.

Internet, December 19, 2006. Yandex helps to find advertised products and services online and know their exact location in the city. If Yandex.Direct advertisers specified the address of their stores or offices, with just one click the users can see them on Yandex.Maps.

Internet, December 15, 2006. Today, Yandex released a new version of Personal Search software designed to find messages, documents, and other files on the user’s personal computer and in the local network. Version 2.5 supports search over databases of TheBat! email client (in addition Outlook, Outlook Express, and Mozilla Thunderbird) and offers a pilot version of API to create add-ons enabling search over programs and files in various formats.

Internet, December 14, 2006. Online payment system Yandex.Money signed an agreement with Skype, a global IP-telephony system. From now on, users of Skype in Russia can add money to their accounts via Yandex.Money with no commission fee.

Moscow, December 8, 2006. The final round of Yandex Open Cup VII in Internet Search is over. Same as last year, Igor Makhaniok became “the Man Who Found Everything”. Now he is the first two-time holder of the title in history of the Cup.

Internet, December 6, 2006. A new version of Yandex.Postcards service is open for cooperation. From now on, any Yandex visitor can offer an original virtual postcard to millions of Internet users. For this purpose, Yandex.Postcards has a special partnership program.

Oslo, December 4, 2006. The first foreign-language Internet Search Cup under Yandex license is currently held in Norway. A new multilingual version of the Cup makes it possible to have Internet search competitions in any language. The partner is Kvasir, the oldest Norway’s search service, which undertook to translate the interface of the game and prepared the tasks. The final round of the contest, Norgesmesterskap i søk, will take place in Oslo on December 14.

Internet, November 28, 2006. The second round of Yandex Cup VII in Internet Search is finished. Nine contestants — from Russia, Belarus, and Switzerland — made it to the final. The names of the finalists and the results table for the second tour of the Cup are shown on this page.

Internet, November 22, 2006. Yandex released an informational report on Russian-language online media. Research data were collected by Yandex.News. Full text of the report “Mass Media in Russian Internet” is available at: http://company.yandex.ru/english/yandex_on_mediasphere_autumn_2006_eng.pdf.

Internet, November 9, 2006. Nokia and Yandex launched a search plug-in for Nokia smart phones. Mobile Search with Yandex Web and Image Search is available for all Nokia Series 60 mobile devices.

Internet, October 17, 2006. Yandex announces the second competition of scientific projects — Internet Mathematics 2007. The company intends to finance around half a year projects in the field of information retrieval and related disciplines, for a total amount of RUB 5 million.

Internet, October 12, 2006. Yandex announces the traditional Russian Open Cup in Internet search. For the seventh time, everyone who has command of the Russian language and the keyboard is invited to participate in the contest. The prize fund of Yandex Cup-2006 is one million roubles.

Internet, October 10, 2006. Online context advertising is now available even to those who do not have websites.

Internet, 4 October, 2006. From now on, all Yandex visitors can see right away what subjects and events are most actively discussed on the Web — with the help of the new, second version of Yandex Blog Search service.

Internet, October 3, 2006. A new Yandex service — Quotations in the News — helps look for statements made by different people in mass media stories. The most popular comments and the most extensively quoted personalities are featured on the main page of the service, giving the picture of the day with direct speech of the central characters. Following the press portraits, Quotations in the News is yet another implementation of fact extraction technology developed by Yandex.

Internet, September 28, 2006. Yandex announces changes in criteria for joining Yandex Advertising Network and invites new participants. All sites with daily audience exceeding 300 visitors will be able to display Yandex.Direct ads and make money from context advertising. The owners of sites that participate in Yandex Ad Network get half of the revenues generated by their ad spots.