15 Facts About Yandex Search

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Yandex Search technology provides local search results in more than 1,400 cities.

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In 2009, Yandex launched MatrixNet, a new method of machine learning that significantly improves the relevance of search results.

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3.

Yandex Search is performed in Russian, English, French, German, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Tatar, Kazakh.

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In 2013, Yandex was considered by some to be the safest search engine at the time and the third most secure among all web resources.

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5.

On 5 December 2013 Yandex Search announced a complete refusal of accounting the link factor in the future.

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6.

In 2012, the so-called “Smart Yandex Search Hints” appeared, which instantly give out information about the main constants, traffic jams, and have a built-in calculator.

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Name of the system - Yandex Search, - was invented together by Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich.

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In 2001, Yandex overtook another Russian search engine, Rambler, in terms of attendance, and became the leading search engine of Runet.

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Yandex Search began to understand requests in a natural language that were asked in interrogative form.

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Yandex Search results began to be issued including in XML format.

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In November 2019 Sberbank announced that it would give up its golden share, and the following month Yandex Search shareholders voted to approve a corporate restructuring backed by the Russian government which would invest control of the golden share in a new public interest foundation, to be implemented by the end of the first quarter of 2020, after Sberbank had previously agreed to sell the golden share for one euro.

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In 2012, Yandex Search overtook Channel One in terms of daily audience, which made the Yandex Search a leader in the domestic media market.

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In 2013, Yandex Search confirmed this status, overtaking First in terms of revenue.

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In 2008, Yandex was the ninth search engine in the world, in 2009 the seventh, and in 2013 the fourth.

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15.

Yandex Search has relied on several logos since its renaming, with the first logo created by Arkady Volozh and debuted in 1997 on ?ndex.

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