Пресс-релизы / search

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.

Internet, March 22, 2007. Yandex announces launch of mobile version of traffic jam map. Now the owners of Pocket PC can access current information about traffic on the roads of Moscow via ”traffic jams” bookmark at mobile Yandex.Maps, or via a separate link. The use of service is free of charge; data on traffic jams is being renewed every 5 minutes.

Internet, March 19, 2007. Yandex announces the start of a large-scale campaign to support talented young people. The project started yesterday with awarding the winners of the 70th Moscow Mathematical Olympiad in the Main Buidling at Moscow State University. All winners received Yandex signature T-shirts reading ”Ya — matematik” (”I am a mathematician”).

Internet, March 13, 2007. Yandex provides advertisers with a new tool to appraise site audience quality and measure conversion ratio for keyword advertising. Yandex.Direct now features a new instrument called Metrica.

Internet, March 5, 2007. Yandex opened a development office in Ekaterinburg. The branch is headed by Pavel Braslavski from the Web Search Department. This is the third regional office of Yandex: in September 2006, it opened a division in Saint Petersburg and a representative office in Ukraine a year before that.

Internet, February 27, 2007. Yandex begins collecting and publishing questions for the Internet conference of the First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on the site questions.yandex.ru.

Internet, February 22, 2007. Yandex has updated its Yandex.Goroda (Yandex Cities) project — the rating of cities with high Internet penetration. The number of participant cities has reached 50. The ranking criteria for the Internet use in the regions now include the activity of local bloggers.

Internet, February 12, 2007. Begun, Rambler, and Yandex assessed the volume of the context advertising market in the Russian Internet. According to analytical departments of the three companies, in 2006 context ad market turnover amounted to $110 million. This represents an increase of almost 2.5 times compared to 2005, when the turnover was $45 million.

Internet, February 12, 2007. Yandex Bar for Firefox is able to search for blog comments about a web page and can display traffic conditions in Moscow according to Yandex grades.<

MOSCOW, RUSSIA — February 7, 2007 — Yandex, Russia’s largest Internet portal and search engine, today announced preliminary financial results for the full-year 2006. Unaudited revenues for the year totaled $72 million, more than double 2005 revenues.

Internet, January 19, 2007. Yandex.Market introduces Favorite Shops service. All buyers can now personally select stores to be displayed for them in the list of offers at Yandex.Market.

Internet, January 18, 2007. On the New Year's eve, the jury of Internet Mathematics 2007 announced the winners of the contest. Of 156 applications submitted for the competition, 31 projects were selected. According to the conditions of the contest, Yandex will finance half-year research projects of the winners for a total amount of RUB 5 million.