- Yandex
Infobox_Company
company_name = Yandex
Яндекс
company_
company_type = N/A
company_slogan = N/A
foundation = 1997
location = flagicon|RUSMoscow
key_people = Arkady Volozh, CEO
num_employees = 1000-2000
revenue = N/A
industry =Internet
Search Engine
products = N/A
homepage = http://www.yandex.ru/Yandex ( _ru. Я́ндекс) is a
Russia nsearch engine and the largest RussianWeb portal . Yandex was launched in1997 . Its name can be explained as "Yet Another iNDEXer" (yandex) or "Языково́й (language) Index". The Russian word "Я" corresponds to English "I" (as the singular first-person pronoun), making "Яndex" a bilingual pun on "index."According to research studies conducted by TNS, FOM, and Comcon, Yandex is the largest resource and largest search engine in
Russian Internet , based on the audience size and internet penetration.Yandex LLC became profitable in November 2002. In 2004, Yandex sales increased to $17M, which was 10 times greater than the company's revenue just 2 years earlier. The net income of the company in 2004 constituted $7M. In June 2006, the weekly revenue of Yandex.Direct context ads system exceeded $1M. All of Yandex's accounting measures have been audited by
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu since 1999.The closest competitors of Yandex in the Russian market are Rambler and
Mail.ru . Although services likeGoogle andYahoo! are also used by Russian users and have Russian interfaces, Google has about 21-27% of search engines generated traffic to Russian sites and Yandex has around 44%. [http://www.liveinternet.ru/stat/ru/searches.html] [ [http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_27/b4091060426533.htm Where Google Isn't Goliath] BusinessWeek]One of the Yandex's largest advantages for Russian-language users is recognition of Russian
inflection in search queries.Fact|date=October 2008Since 2001, Yandex conducts regular Internet search contests named "Yandex Cup" with several thousands of participants and valuable prizes.Fact|date=October 2008
On 6th July 2006, Yandex and the
BBC simultaneously hosted a webcast which used viewers' questions to interview Russian PresidentVladimir Putin . Yandex and the BBC dealt with the Russian-language and the English-language questions respectively. Yandex was represented byAleksandr Gurnov , a famous Russian journalist and celebrity.In March 2007 Yandex acquired
Moikrug.ru a Russian social network to search and support professional and personal contacts. [http://company.yandex.ru/english/releases/2007/2007-03-27.xml]In September 2008 Yandex acquired the rights to
Punto Switcher software program, an automatic Russian to English keyboard layout switcher. Punto Switcher also allows to change standard system key combinations for basic program commands.Fact|date=October 2008References
External links
* [http://www.yandex.ru Yandex Portal]
* [http://company.yandex.com/general_info/yandex_today.xml Yandex today]
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