In March 2007, it acquired Russian social networking service. On February 16, 2018, the company showed off the first tests of its autonomous cars in Moscow. On October 10, 2017, the company introduced its intelligent personal assistant, Alisa (Alice) for Android, iOS, and Microsoft Windows. In July 2013, Mail.Ru started placing Yandex Direct ads on its search result pages. In March 2013, the company added an English user interface to its translation mobile app. On May 19, 2010, it launched an English-only web search engine. In September 2010, Yandex launched Yandex Music, a music streaming service, with a catalogue of 800,000 tracks from 58,000 performers.
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In August 2009, the company had introduced a player of free legal music in its search results. In January 2009, Mozilla Firefox 3.5, replaced Google with Yandex as the default search provider for Russian-language builds. In 2001, the company launched the Yandex.Direct online advertising network. On June 20, 2008, it announced the formation of Yandex Labs in Silicon Valley, with an objective to foster "innovation in search and advertising technology". In 2010, Yandex launched its "Poltava" search engine algorithm for Ukrainian users, based on its MatrixNet technology. In 2009, all services of were localized for the Ukrainian market. In 2008, Yandex extended its presence in Ukraine by increasing bandwidth between Moscow data centers and UA-IX in Ukraine fivefold. In September 2005, it opened an office in Ukraine and launched In 2007, Yandex introduced a customized search engine for Ukrainian users Yandex also opened its development center in Kyiv in May 2007. In 1998, Yandex launched contextual advertisement on its search engine. In 2000, Yandex was incorporated as a standalone company by Arkady Volozh. Initially, the search engine was developed by Comptek. The search engine was launched on September 23, 1997, and was presented at the Softool exhibition in Moscow.
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Another pun is based on the yin and yang contrast (Russian: инь – индекс, ян – яндекс).īetween 19, the company continued developing its search technologies and released software for searching the Bible. However, this is also a bilingual pun on "index" since "Я" ("ya") means "I" in Russian. The name initially stood for "Yet Another iNDEXer". In 1993, Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich, friends since their school days and by then working together to develop search software, invented the word "Yandex" to describe their search technologies. Ī new location in Prague was added in December 2022 to accommodate the company's rapidly expanding crowdsourcing, routing, cloud computing, ridesharing and weather forecasting teams. The company's Shanghai office was launched in 2015 to facilitate work with Chinese companies operating on the Russian language market. Its first research and development office in Europe started operating in Berlin in 2014. The company opened its first European office in Lucerne in 2012 to serve advertising clients in the EU. The Istanbul office was launched together with the company's web portal in Turkey in 2011. The company's technology and business development unit, Yandex Labs, was opened in Silicon Valley in 2008. Its main competitors on the Russian market are Google,, and Rambler. It also has the largest market share of any search engine from Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States and is the 5th largest search engine worldwide after Google, Baidu, Bing, and Yahoo!. The firm is the largest technology company in Russia and the second largest search engine on the Internet in Russian, with a market share of over 42%. It primarily serves audiences in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, and also has 30 offices worldwide. The firm is registered in Schiphol, the Netherlands as a naamloze vennootschap (Dutch public limited company), but the company founders and most of the team members are located in Russia. ( / ˈ j ʌ n d ɛ k s/ Russian: Яндекс) is a multinational corporation primarily for Russian and Russian-language users, providing 70 Internet-related products and services, including transportation, search and information services, e-commerce, navigation, mobile applications, and online advertising.
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