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| Yandex Office Moscow |
Yandex (Russia:
Яндекс) is a Russia Internet company which operates the largest
search engine in Russia and with about 62% market share in that country. But its services are also available throughout the Europe.
It also develops a number of Internet-based services and products.
Yandex ranked as the 4th largest search engine worldwide, based on
information from
Comscore.com,
with more than 150 million searches per day as of April 2012, and more
than 50.5 million visitors (all company's services) daily as of July
2013.
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| Arkady Volozh Co-founder |
Our mission is to help people solve their problems. Any problems. On- or
offline, routine or one-off, personal or mathematical, geographical or
logistical, theoretical or practical. For anyone. Anywhere. To that end,
we develop and hone our search technologies and information retrieval
services.
Yandex attracts more than 56 million users from all over the world.The web site also operates in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Turkey.
History:
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| llya Segalovich, CTO |
In 1993
Arkady Volozh and
llya Segalovich, friends since their school days and by then working together to develop search
, invented the word "Yandex" to describe their search technologies. The name initially stood for "Yet Another iNDEXer"
. The Russian word "Я" ("Ya") corresponds to the English personal noun "I", making "Яndex" a bilingual pun on "index". Another pun is based on the yin and yang contrast.
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| Yandex Search Engine |
The search engine Yandex.ru was launched on September 23, 1997 and
was publicly presented at the Softool exhibition in Moscow. Initially
the search engine was developed by Comptek. In 2000
Yandex was
incorporated as a standalone company by Arkady Volozh.
Yandex is working on technologies like digital app, on-board automobiles computer and many others. Yandex is also providing a platform to talented student to join
Tolstoy education program enabling them to work on interesting projects and become Yandex partners.
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| Yandex internal look |
Financial aid is also given to needy students having a good or sound idea to work on.
Yandex organizes Russia's largest yearly technology conference, Yet
another Conference, and its marketing branch, Yac/m. These events gather
industry experts from all over the world.
Yandex also run seminars,
lectures, workshops and master classes for those who wish to make or
have already made a career in the internet industry.
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