Yandex: Russia’s Largest Internet Company

Здравствуйте. Как поживаете? The virtual web experience today is very much global, and knows no boundaries. Prime example is a search engine from Russia called Yandex.

Yandex indexes webpages from the United States. This is quite interesting to an American, since most Americans are more familiar with search engines such as Yahoo!, MSN or Bing, and Google.

According to the Yandex website, Yandex is Russia’s largest internet company, whose websites attract a workday audience of more than 12 million users (as of the start of 2009) from Russia, Ukraine and other countries. What Yandex does:

Our major goal is to give answers to users’ questions. Questions can be explicit or implicit. Explicit questions are typed right in Yandex’s search box and return answers to users in the form of search results.

To answer implicit questions like “what is the weather like today”, “is there anything important going on now”, “can I drive downtown without traffic jams” Yandex offers its users specialized information services.

Russia is one of the few countries with homegrown world-class internet technologies. Besides Russia, local search engines lead in the US, China, South Korea and the Czech Republic.

Source: Yandex