Yandex is a Russian internet technologies company and the largest Russian and seventh-largest world internet search engine.

Yandex

Yandex is a Russian internet technologies company and the largest Russian and seventh-largest world internet search engine.

As of May 2010, Yandex had approximately 64.0% of the Russian search market, compared to Google’s 22,1% (www.liveinternet.ru).

Yandex provides its users in Russia and the CIS with highly targeted sophisticated web search and information retrieval services based on world-class technologies like proprietary machine-learning method MatrixNet.

In addition to localized search results, Yandex users have an option of limiting their searches only to websites outside the domestic internet.

The company also offers a portal providing a range of free online services and extensive local, national and international information including maps, traffic information, image, news or blog search, spam-free email and many others.

In 2009, Yandex’s revenue totaled to $278m. Contextual ads accounted for 86% of the company’s revenues. Display ads comprised 11%.

“Yandex” is an acronym for the phrase “Yet Another Indexer.”