Yandex Goes Deeper Underground
Internet, September 19, 2008. The newly unveiled mobile application Yandex.Metro allows metro passengers in Russia and Ukraine to quickly plan the best route and calculate the time of travel. The application works without Internet connection, so that mobile device owners can use it even underground.
Yandex Is Building a New Data Center in Ivanteevka
Ivanteevka, September 15, 2008. Yandex started construction in Ivanteevka of its sixth data center. Commencement of its operation is scheduled for late 2008.
Five New Cities Join Yandex’s Local Network
Internet, September 12, 2008. Web users in Kurgan, Perm, Salekhard, Tyumen, Khanty-Mansiysk can now enjoy all Yandex services at local rates.
Yandex Releases Punto 3.0
Internet, September 9, 2008. Yandex has released a new version of Punto Switcher, an automatic Russian to English keyboard layout switcher. Punto Switcher 3.0 is available for free download at http://punto.yandex.ru/, the program’s official website. You can discuss the software and share ideas with the developers at the Punto Switcher Club at the Ya.ru social networking service.
Yandex Offers World Map Search
Internet, September 2, 2008. Yandex rolls out a world map, currently the most detailed online map of the world in Russian.
Ya.Online to Send Instant Messages and Share Moods
Internet, September 1, 2008. Yandex launches an instant messaging service. This service is featured in the new version of Ya.Online (I’m.Online), Yandex’s free desktop application. The service is powered by Jabber and is compatible with user accounts, both on Yandex and on other jabber-based services like QIP, GMail and Livejournal.
Yandex Extends its Presence in Ukraine
Internet, August 20, 2008. Yandex embarked on a new stage of developing its infrastructure in Ukraine by increasing bandwidth between the company’s datacenters in Moscow and an Internet Exchange Point (UA-IX) in Ukraine five times, from 30 Mbit/s to 145 Mbit/s.
Yandex Search Supports World Standards
Internet, August 15, 2008. During the summer of 2008 Yandex search added international data exchange formats Sitemaps, GZIP, MediaRSS and FOAF to XML, RSS and Atom it already supported. The new Yandex search functionality allows better and faster indexing of "fast content" oriented websites like media websites, social network services, multimedia hosting services etc.
Quintura охватила 25% женской аудитории Рунета
Компания Quintura развивает партнерскую сеть по программе «Quintura - Поиск по Сайту». К 08.08.08 совокупная аудитория поискового виджета Quintura достигла 8 миллионов посетителей в месяц, из которых 3 миллиона приходиться на женские сайты. По разным оценкам активная женская аудитория Рунета составляет около 12 млн. Таким образом, Quintura охватила 25% женской аудитории русскоязычного сегмента Интернета. Партнерами поисковой системы стали популярные порталы: Cosmo.ru, Passion.ru, Leluxe.ru, Missfit.ru и другие. Quintura формирует вертикальный поиск по женским ресурсам Рунета и планирует начать продавать контекстную рекламу в этой вертикали осенью 2008 года.
Chelyabinsk and Kirov Join Yandex
Internet, August 8, 2008. Web users in Chelyabinsk and in Kirov all web services provided by Yandex at local rates. All costs of renting a dedicated channel to Moscow are covered by ISP Multiregion, Yandex's partner in the Local Network Program.
Yandex Finds Video News
Internet, August 7, 2008. Yandex now searches videos on websites of major media.
Yandex Offers Budget Control Tool to its Advertisers
Internet, August 6, 2008. Yandex.Direct advertisers have got a new tool for managing their budgets: they can bid separately for contextual and for search ads. This ad management mechanism allows for better control over costs of placing contextual ads on websites in the Yandex Advertising Network (YAN).
Yandex in Vladivostok
Internet, July 24, 2008. Vladivostok joins Yandex’s Local Network Program. Now all services the company provides for its users in this city become local. With Vladivostok ISPs joining the Local Network Program, web users will be able to access all Yandex services at a high page loading speed and local rates.
Yandex Finds and Shows Videos
Internet, July 3, 2008. Yandex launched the public beta of Yandex.Video, the company’s new service for searching and sharing video content. Now, Yandex users can search videos online and view the most popular video clips.
Clear Traffic for Dozens of Cities
Internet, June 26, 2008. Yandex completes the first phase of the Traffic 2.0 project, the company’s initiative to create user-generated traffic maps. Users can now track clear traffic in Moscow at the Yandex.Maps website. Starting today, drivers in dozens of cities across Russia and Ukraine start feeding and benefiting from live traffic information.
Yandex Labs to Open in Silicon Valley
Vishal Makhijani to serve as President and CEO of US-based Lab
Yandex Buys Smilink
Internet, June 16, 2008. Yandex will be closing the acquisition of Smilink, a Russian road traffic monitoring agency, in July this year. The financial terms of the acquisition are confidential.
Yandex Search For MTS Сlients
Internet, June 10, 2008. Yandex’s mobile search service is now available on MTS WAP portal. The newly launched service searches both the internet, and the mobile content at wap.mts.ru.
Yandex.Mail Speaks Ukrainian
Internet, June 9, 2008. Yandex.Mail is now fully available in Ukrainian. Since last year, Yandex users in Ukraine can send emails from the Ukrainian domain @yandex.ua. Starting today, they can write emails and send them using the Ukrainian interface.
Yandex Mobilizes the Web
Internet, June 6, 2008. Yandex makes the web accessible from any mobile phone supporting an internet browser, automatically recognizing and adapting website content for the specific make and model. Mobile users now can rely on Yandex to properly display their search results for them, even if their gadget cannot do so on its own.