Пресс-релизы / search

Internet, January 29, 2008. Yandex today announced preliminary unaudited financial results for 2007. Revenue increased by approximately 130% over 2006.

Internet, January 16, 2008. Yandex launched direct.yandex.com, an English-language webpage for the non-Russian speaking users of the Yandex.Direct contextual ad serving system.

Internet, December 20, 2007. Yandex today announces the release of a new mobile application Yandex.Fotki. Anyone who owns a smartphone or communicator with inbuilt camera can now upload their picture on the Yandex.Fotki photo-hosting service at one single click. The new application supports Symbian and Windows Mobile.

Moscow, Russia, December 18, 2007. Yandex, Russia’s most popular search engine, announced today that Nilesh Lakhani has been named the company’s chief financial officer.

Internet, December 19, 2007. Starting today, Yandex users can find their way not only in the city, but also underground. Now, Yandex offers metro map search for all cities on the Yandex.Maps service, which have a metro system. Users in Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Kiev can also plan their route and calculate the time of travel.

Internet, December 13, 2007. Today Yandex has held the final round of Russia’s Eighth Annual Open Search Cup. The title of “The Person Who Found Everything” went to 27-year-old Denis Fursov from Saint Petersburg.

Internet, December 11, 2007. Yandex announced today that its Yandex.Images service is now able to search for images beyond the bounds of the Russian Internet. Yandex users can now view more search results for queries in most European languages thanks to a new partnership with Picsearch, image and multimedia search provider.

Moscow, December 10, 2007. Yandex today announced the launch of the Yandex Local Network Program. Through this program, Yandex intends to rent dedicated channels and place its networking equipment in all federal regions of Russia. As a result, Yandex will become a local resource for most of the Russian Web users and will be able to decrease the cost of traffic while increasing the download speed for all Yandex services.

Internet, November 27, 2007. Yandex announced today that Yandex.Market, the Yandex comparison shopping system, started to display user reviews of participating online shops. Now, the user reviews are available to all visitors of the service.

Internet, November 20, 2007. Yandex announced a joint program between its photo hosting service Yandex.Fotki and FotoClick.ru, a photo printing service. The program will allow Yandex.Fotki users to select their favorite images, to print and purchase them through FotoClick.ru. One 10x15cm (4x6 inch) photo will cost 3.5 roubles ($0.14 USD) and can be delivered by mail, by courier, or picked up at a FotoClick.ru service outlet.

Internet, November 16, 2007. Yandex and HTC Corp. have announced their partnership. The first shipment of the new flagship model smartphones HTC TyTN II with built-in Yandex search has just arrived to Russia.

Internet, November 14, 2007. The first round of the Yandex Eighth Annual Open Internet Search Cup has come to a close with 112 players, all of whom gave at least 11 correct answers, left standing.

Internet, November 12, 2007. Today, Yandex reviewed the results of its Advertising Network performance. In the past year after the Advertising Network had changed the criteria of membership, its audience has tripled, the monthly number of conversions (a user click-through resulting in a certain action, like a purchase or a form submission) to advertisers’ web sites has grown by 340%, and its monthly payouts to advertising partners increased by 450%.

Moscow, October 25, 2007. Today, Yandex announces that its Yandex.Direct ad-serving system now supports the Ukranian language. Advertisers have the ability to compose their advertisements in Ukrainian and to display them next to search results on the corresponding queries. Yandex.Direct now has a Ukrainian interface as well.

Internet, October 15, 2007. Yandex has announced that its advertising platform, Yandex.Direct, will now offer a deferred payments system for its regular customers. Previously, only the prepayment option was available to advertisers.

Novosibirsk, October 12, 2007. Yandex is now positioned as a local resource in Novosibirsk. The company has set up its networking equipment within the Novosibirsk Internet Exchange Point (NSK IX) and now allows local internet providers to give their users free access to the Yandex services like if it was a local resource. This Novosibirsk Internet Exchange Point serves a base for direct and free traffic exchange between Yandex and most of the local internet providers.

Internet, October 9, 2007. Yandex has started publishing user ratings for Yandex.Market, the portal’s network of online shops. Online shoppers can now choose an e-commerce site based on cumulative user opinion that is available to all the Yandex.Market visitors.

Internet, October 8, 2007. Yandex has announced that the Eighth Annual Open Internet Search Cup, which the company has held since 2001 will begin on October 11, 2007. At stake is a combined prize fund of 1,249,000 roubles (almost $50,000 USD).

Internet, October 5, 2007. Yandex announced today that it has launched a new initiative for educational institutions. Now, every school in Russia and CIS has an opportunity to make their own homepage at school.yandex.ru and to stream there their own news and events. Schools can subscribe to the service by sending an application to [email protected].

Internet, October 30, 2007. Yandex announced that it is now offering a monthly budget forecasting tool for all users of Yandex.Direct, the company’s online advertising service. Advertisers will now be able to approximate their monthly budgets by selecting specific online parameters that match their company’s needs, and as a result save money and time for testing their advertising campaigns.