Пресс-релизы / search

Internet, May 29, 2008. Shopping became easier for Yandex.Market users who can now read customer reviews published on the service. Reviews for products and services are available right on product description pages. Any authorized user can write a review.

Internet, May 21, 2008. Yandex.Direct started alerting its clients, advertisers and partners, about website problems as they occur. Due to Yandex’s website availability monitoring, advertisers can now quickly deal with breakdowns without wasting their money on displaying ads with links, which lead to inaccessible websites.

Internet, May 16, 2008. Yandex releases a new version of search on www.yandex.ru. The testing period lasted about a month. The final version takes into account feedback from thousands of users.

Saint Petersburg, May 15, 2008. With the opening of the sales department in its Saint Petersburg office today, Yandex brings its advertising technologies closer to advertisers and advertising agencies in this city. The Northern Capital is the third location, besides Moscow and Odessa, where Yandex sells ads “on the spot”*.

Internet, May 13, 2008. Yandex became the default search engine on Opera Mini mobile web browser. Mobile users in Russia and in the CIS can now have instant access to Yandex web search directly from the start page of the browser. Previously, the Yandex search field featured in Opera’s desktop browsers.

Internet, May 7, 2008. Yandex adds interactive maps of road junctions to its Moscow mapping service. This new handy tool provides drivers with ready-made road junction solutions and helps planning a trip.

Internet, April 15, 2008. Yandex has launched connection search, a service designed for travelers. Yandex.Timetable helps to plan a trip by plane or by train.

Internet, April 8, 2008. Samara joins Yandex’s Local Network Program. The company set up its server equipment there and started free traffic exchange with local Internet providers. Now Yandex becomes a local web resource for Samara web users.

Internet, April 7, 2008. Yandex implemented quantitative indicators to measure quality of websites in the Yandex Advertising Network (YAN). In addition to regular moderation, partner websites will also undergo automated check-up.

Internet, April 2, 2008. Today Yandex launched map search for the largest Ukrainian cities with population in excess of 1m people. In addition to Kiev and Odessa, Yandex.Maps users now can look up street addresses in Kharkov, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Lviv and Zaporizhia.

Internet, March 31, 2008. Yandex.Money, our proprietary online payment system, now offers a new method to top up e-accounts or withdraw funds using banking cards. Russian Development Bank (RDB) is the first to offer the new service to its customers.

Internet, March 28, 2008, 18:28 Moscow time (15:28 GMT). Yandex has launched an online what-time-is-it service. The Yandex.Vremya (Yandex.Time) service displays current local time for any city in the world and the time difference between cities*.

Internet, March 27, 2008. Yandex offers Kaspersky Anti-Virus software for free to all web users. Anyone can get free protection from virus and malware downloading the Ya.Online (I’m.Online) program now featuring with the Kaspersky anti-virus module. The program is available for download here.

Internet, March 20, 2008. Today, Yandex rolled out advanced blog search. Yandex users can now find all posts or comments from Russian-speaking bloggers in a specific city, region or country.

Internet, March 18, 2008. Yandex is now providing traffic maps for three capitals: Moscow, Kiev and Saint Petersburg. Starting today, residents of Saint Petersburg can plan their trips around the city using Yandex.Maps, just like residents of Moscow or Kiev.

Internet, March 6, 2008. Yandex has launched “Kiev Traffic”, the first traffic monitoring service in the Ukrainian Internet. Now anyone who drives in Kiev can check traffic before hitting the road and avoid congestions.

Internet, March 4, 2008. Yandex launches Traffic 2.0, a user-generated traffic congestion monitoring service.

Internet, February 28, 2007. Yandex can now find books by ISBN (International Standard Book Number). Now each book on Yandex.Market has an identifier – a webpage with publisher information and the book’s listings in online shops. Now books can be looked up by ISBN through Yandex search.

Internet, February 20, 2008. The ads that Yandex serves on the pages of websites participating in the Yandex Advertising Network become more targeted. Now Yandex.Direct, the ad serving system, can serve ads based not only on the website content, but also on user interests.

Internet, February 8, 2008. Yandex announced today that it placed its networking equipment in Frankfurt at an Internet Exchange Point (DE-CIX).