Yandex has presented what it claims is a new concept in search engine results pages to a Russian audience at an online industry conference in Moscow. They’ve nicknamed the new concept “Islands,” but are describing it functionally as “Interactive Snippets” and the next step on from rich snippets. To be launched in a few weeks in Turkey, followed by Russia, the new interactive snippets enable webmasters and publishers to coordinate their own on-SERPS interactions with users which are fully controlled by their own sites. [caption id="attachment_159950" align="aligncenter" width="5 [...]

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Yandex has taken exception to a recent study that reported it has more malware in its search results than other major search engines like Google and Bing. The company shared its concerns with Search Engine Land via email, saying that it also sent the same response to AV-TEST, the German IT security firm that published the findings from an 18-month search/malware study. We reported on the study yesterday after PC Mag was first to report on it. The AV-TEST study examined more than 13 million Yandex search results and found malware in about .024 percent -- twice the percentage of malware it [...]

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About three years ago, Google was labeled in one study as the "King of Malware." Things have apparently changed a lot since then. A new study reports that Google is beating its primary search competitors pretty significantly when it comes to keeping malware out of search results. The 18-month study (PDF), done by a German IT security group called AV-TEST, reviewed more than 40 million web pages -- the vast majority (about 38 million) coming from Google, Bing, Yandex and Blekko. The results: About .0025 percent of Google's search results were links to malicious websites. Blekko was [...]

Related Topics: Blekko | Channel: SEO | Google: Security | Google: Web Search | Microsoft: Bing | Search Engines: Yandex | SEO: Spamming | Top News

Yandex, the company behind the leading search engine in Russia with a presence in Turkey, has taken a radically different direction to its search activities by launching a voice social search app called "Wonder" on  Apple's iOS platform for the US market. Described by the company as "experimental," the app responds to users' spoken queries and displays results from that user's social connections in a horizontal format which Yandex believes may be the best way to display social search for the future. One key aspect of the app is the historical nature of the data queried. "Wonder" is not [...]

Related Topics: Channel: Mobile | Search Engines: Yandex | Search Features: Search By Voice | Top News

Russia's leading search engine, Yandex has launched an approach to personalizing search results for users in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, affecting 75-80% of search queries and potentially all of the search results a user sees. Yandex has been testing the approach throughout the last year and found that users click 37% more often on a top result which is personalized and save around 14% of the time they normally spend on the SERPS. They claim this means that the average user saves some 8 minutes a week. Deputy CTO Grigory Bakunov launched the approach at a press conference in [...]

Related Topics: Channel: Consumer | Search Engines: Personalized Search Engines | Search Engines: Yandex | Top News

Yandex is rolling out maps of the US and Europe, powered by Nokia's mapping division Navteq. The company is also introducing a Turkish mapping site. Yandex says that its maps have an audience of 16.5 million on the PC and an additional 6.6 million users in mobile. Most of these users are concentrated in Eastern Europe. In addition to the new Turkish, European and North American maps, Yandex currently offers maps for Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus: The users of Yandex.Maps in these countries can search for businesses and POIs (including locations nearby), find and plan route [...]

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It's no secret that Apple is ditching Google Maps on iOS6. In Russia, that decision looms large for Russian search engine Yandex, which will provide the backend for the new Apple Maps app, according to Bloomberg. Software developers in Russia that have been using the developer version of iOS6 have reported seeing the Yandex integration in Apple's new mapping app. As one developer told Bloomberg: "When you search for Vladimir Lenin's Mausoleum, it offers you to get more details on Yandex.Maps application or offers to download Yandex.Maps from App Store if the user doesn't have it installe [...]

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Google has been moving lots of goal posts for us all recently and the "Hreflang" tag is a case in point. A succession of Google speakers has presented the latest "Hreflang" thinking at International Search Summits @SMX throughout 2012. On each occasion, the presentation and explanation was different from the one before. The bad news is that keeping up with the changes has been tough, but the good news is that Google has actually been listening to the multinational market place for once! But Don't Canonicals & Hreflang Tags Belong Together? Susan Moskwa presented first when Google was [...]

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On the even of the iPad3 (or "HD") Russian search engine Yandex released data on iPad usage in Russia. The company found that "iPad users accounted for about 1 percent of all internet users in Russia." The majority were from the greater Moscow area. While the iPad is neither a PC nor a "mobile" device exactly, Yandex said that the behavior coming from iPad users was more like PC user behavior than that of smartphone owners: iPad users make as many search queries as, and even slightly more than, PC users, and significantly more than mobile phone users. The share of long search sessions on iPa [...]

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Russian search giant Yandex announced that it will be licensing data from Nokia-owned Navteq to offer better and more comprehensive maps coverage around the world: Yandex . . . has purchased a license for digital maps supplied by the leading global location content provider, NAVTEQ. These digital maps will be used in the development of a detailed world map for the Yandex.Maps service. NAVTEQ has provided Yandex with maps from all over the world, including highly detailed maps of Europe, North America, Australia and developed countries in Asia. These maps show intercity motorways, urban tra [...]

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Last time, I was analysing the financial performance for the quarter of Google and demonstrated that internationally -- excluding the UK -- Google's growth rate over last year was around 44%. We have now seen the same quarter's figures from other major international search engines and we can conclude that Baidu's growth rate in China tops the lot, followed by Yandex in Russia. Even though Google's rate of growth outside the US and UK exceeds the US by some 20%, it still seems significantly behind both the Chinese performance of Baidu at 85% growth over the same quarter in 2010 or Yandex's [...]

Related Topics: Channel: SEO | Google & China | Google: Outside US | Multinational Search | Search Engines: Baidu | Search Engines: China Search Engines | Search Engines: Outside USA | Search Engines: Yandex

Did you think the search engine war was over and that Google had won? Perhaps you believed that there were a few outposts still resisting the Google conquest, but expected that they’d give in eventually? If so, you’d better sit down and take a strong drink as the first salvos in the new Search Engine War has just been exchanged -- and this time, it’s not going to be so one-sided. Google’s ‘Blitzkrieg' from 2003 to 2006 took out many locally strong search engines who simply couldn’t find the resources, couldn’t match Google’s pace of innovation or couldn’t resist Google� [...]

Related Topics: Baidu | Channel: SEO | Google & China | Multinational Search | Search Engines: Yandex

Russian search engine Yandex has launched an English-language version of Yandex.Webmaster, its suite of webmaster tools. The service can be reached at webmaster.yandex.com. If you've used the Google and/or Bing webmaster portals, Yandex's will be familiar to you. On sign-up, users have five options to confirm site ownership: HTML file, meta tag, text file, WHOIS or DNS. Once your site is confirmed, Yandex.Webmaster shows a lot of information about how Yandex sees your site -- pages that the spider has visited, pages appearing in Yandex search results, links, search queries and others. [...]

Related Topics: Channel: Consumer | Search Engines: Yandex

Yandex NV, the parent of the Russian search engine Yandex, had a very successful debut on the Nasdaq market yesterday. The company raised more than $1.3 billion in its IPO. It follows last week's similarly splashy but much smaller IPO from LinkedIn. As with the LinkedIn IPO last week many investors turned right around and sold the company's shares for some quick profit-taking. However, many investors anticipate considerable growth for Yandex, whose home country is Europe's second largest internet market after Germany. Yandex also operates in several other countries that were once part of th [...]

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Russia's leading search engine Yandex formally filed for an IPO that has been expected for at least three years but was delayed by the global recession. The company plans to raise roughly $1 billion through its US Nasdaq offering. Founded in 1997, Yandex controls approximately 65 percent of the Russian search market and is valued at an estimated $6 billion to $9 billion. Google controls just over 20 percent of Russian search. Yandex also operates in Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Yandex.com (the English language site) was launched in May of last year. The shares offered to the market w [...]

Related Topics: Channel: Strategy | Search Engines: Yandex | Stats: Size

How does Yandex compare to Google? Can a regional search engine success really survive in the longer term? Ilya Segalovich thinks Yandex can and reveals that Yandex has greater international aspirations. But to expand, Yandex really has to win the Russian market — compare the statistics coming out of Russia and decide what the future might hold! There are lessons here for search marketers everywhere!

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For online marketers, Russia offers two appealing qualities: It's one of just five countries in the world where Google isn't the market leader, and Russia is now the 2nd biggest online market in Europe in terms of users, having passed the UK last year. Yandex is the market leader in Russia, with a 64% market share, more than double Google's 22% share, according to Russian statistics service LiveInternet (Dec. 2010). In addition to reaching native Russian speakers, Yandex (Yet Another Indexer has been aggressively expanding globally, now reaching 56 million users from all over the world. [...]

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A few weeks ago, the Czech online industry suddenly was in an uproar. The search engine Seznam was seemingly outranked by Google in market share. With almost the entire of Europe being dominated by Google, the Czech Republic, together with the Russian Federation, held an exceptional position. In these countries, Google isn't the most dominant force in search. Instead, local search engines take the leading positions there. The shift in dominance from Seznam to Google was disputed by Seznam, and it seems they have a valid point in their criticism. The numbers provided by web measurement se [...]

Related Topics: Channel: SEO | Multinational Search | Search Engines: Other Search Engines | Search Engines: Outside USA | Search Engines: Seznam | Search Engines: Yandex

Google: Go to the head of the class. Wikipedia: You stay after school for extra tutoring. That seems to be one of the conclusions you can draw from a fun blog post today by Wolfram|Alpha founder Stephen Wolfram. Writing about the Jeopardy battle between past champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter and IBM's Watson computer (the computer won a dry run earlier this month), Wolfram decided to see how several search engines would fare when asked to answer Jeopardy clues. The results? Google scored highest in both having the answer show up anywhere on the first page of search results and ha [...]

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Globally, Russia is the eighth largest market of Internet users, and as we know, Google is playing second fiddle to Yandex, which is currently the main search engine in Russia with well over half of the market share. Yandex makes hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and provides a broad range of online services (email, free hosting, PPC advertising network (Yandex Direct), maps, news, weather, and dictionaries). Comscore ranked the web property first in Russia with 34.9 million unique visitors in August 2010, It is also the 25th site in the Alexa Top 100. What's more, Yandex is the de [...]

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