Tag: Yandex

Major Search Engine Stops Using Links For Ranking (For Commercial Queries)
Yandex, the top search engine in Russia, has reportedly announced that it no longer counts links as a ranking factor when delivering search results for commercial queries. Thi...
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Yandex.Disk Expands Its Cloud Storage Options
"Google of Russia" search engine Yandex is expanding the cloud storage options for users of its Yandex.Disk storage service. Yandex.Disk offers 20 GB of storage for free, but now u...
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Ilya Segalovich Dies: Yandex Co-Founder Was 48
On Saturday afternoon Ilya Segalovich, co-founder of the "Google of Russia", Yandex, was taken off life support and passed away. That ended a battle with terminal metastatic gastri...
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Yandex Releases Its New ‘Islands’ Search Results In Beta
Yandex recently announced its new search results concept - interactive snippets called "Islands". This is part of a redesigned search results page. We last reported on it...
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Yandex Co-Founder Ilya Segalovich Dies at 48 [UPDATED]
UPDATE: Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh has clarified an announcement made by his company earlier today that Segalovich had died. According to him, he is actually in a co...
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Apple Adds Yandex As Safari Search Choice In Some Countries
Apple is giving its users more search choices with its upcoming operating system releases -...
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Yandex Launches Interactive Snippets Called ‘Islands’
Russian search giant Yandex announced a newly redesigned search results page today, including new interactive snippets. The company calls these snippets "Islands". Yandex says...
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Yandex Tweaks Algorithm To Include Search Session History
Russian search engine Yandex announced a new change to its algorithm that looks at a person's search history from within a particular search session to deliver results and suggesti...
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Yandex Announces Homepage Redesign
Russian search leader Yandex announced a redesign of its homepage today. The goal, according to the company, was to make the most relevant information more visible and more easily...
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Yandex Launches Its Own Android App Store With Only Apps Verified By Kaspersky Lab
Yandex announed today that it has launched a new app store for Android at Yandex.Store. It has over 50,000 paid and free apps. “Yandex.St...
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Yandex Launches Cab Fare Payments Service
Russian search company Yandex, who had some major social search plans in the U.S. fall apart l...
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Report: Yandex Surpasses Bing In Search Queries
According to a report from Search Engine Watch, citing...
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Facebook Kills Yandex’s Wonder App
Last week, Yandex launched Wonder, a new social search app aimed at the U.S...
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Facebook To Developers: Most Of You Just Keep Doing What You’re Doing
As previously reported, Facebook has been blocking some apps from accessing data -...
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Facebook Blocks Yandex’s New Wonder App (And Twitter’s Vine) From Data
On Thursday, Russian search company Yandex launched a new social search app for...
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