TikTok announces major expansion to creator monetization program
The platform is making it easier for creators to join by expanding the program to 33 new markets and lowering the eligibility requirements.
Topic: Belarus
Ahrefs has raised $1.5 million for Ukraine
Donations from members of the SEO community have gone to help Ukrainian charities. Most of these provide humanitarian help for civilians.
Platforms that have suspended ads in Russia
In addition to political and economic sanctions, the conflict in Ukraine has prompted many crucial platforms to cut off advertiser access to Russian audiences.
Google and Bing halt all ad sales in Russia
The platforms already suspended ads from Russian state media; but, as the conflict in Ukraine intensifies, are now stopping all ads from serving to Russia-based users.
Google pauses all political ads through inauguration
Amidst the volatile US political climate, Google has banned all ads mentioning political topics until after the inauguration.
Lyudmila Rudenko, Soviet chess player, featured with a Google logo
Woman Chess Master Lyudmila Rudenko was born 114 years ago, and Google remembers her today with this doodle.
Sergei Eisenstein Google doodle honors Soviet film director known as the ‘Father of Montage’
Eisenstein's technique of editing film to create fast-paced sequences made him a cinema legend.
Adblock vs. Cost-Per-Action marketing: cooperation works better than conflict
Today, Adblock and other ad blockers are commonplace and indispensable components of the digital advertising industry. Blockers were created as a response to excessive advertisements on websites; they are specifically designed to prevent intrusive ads from displaying. But ad blockers shouldn’t be viewed as being inherently good or evil. In this article, we look at […]
Day of the Dead Google doodle marks Mexico’s holiday honoring life & death
In addition to the Doodle, Google has included a link pointing to a page about the holiday on its Arts and Culture website .
Yandex Rolls Out Mobile-Friendly Algorithm In Russia, Code Name Vladivostok
The largest Russian search engine has launched their mobile-friendly algorithm today.
Yandex Q2 Revs Up 32 Percent, Queries, Paid Clicks Up Too
Russia’s deteriorating relations with Europe and the U.S. don’t appear (so far) to have impacted its leading search engine Yandex, which announced second quarter results this morning. Yandex reported revenues of RUR 12.2 billion ($361.5 million), up 32 percent over last year. Income was RUR 3.6 billion ($1.08 billion), representing a 13 percent increase over […]
Yandex Introduces Cityguide Apps For Russian Market
Combining maps, business listings, reviews and other content aggregated from 70 partners, Yandex has introduced a cityguide app for iOS and Android. There’s also a PC site as well. Called Yandex City, it’s a straight-up map-centric local search site. It’s only available for Russia currently but will likely expand to other geographies that Yandex serves: […]
Yandex Begins Purging Links From Its Rankings For Some Moscow Verticals
Yandex chose the Bynet Week conference in the city of Minsk in Belarus to announce that they have “Started to remove links gradually” from the Yandex MatrixNet algorithm for commercial queries in just the Moscow region. Alexander Sadovsky, Head of Web Search at Yandex, made the announcement yesterday following on from his original explanation in […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 14, 2014
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yelp Turns Up The Heat: 285 Consumer Alerts Issued Over Fake Reviews It’s been almost a year and a half since Yelp began issuing Consumer Alerts when a business on its […]
Facebook Gives Yandex Access To Its Firehose In Return For Improved Presentation Of Its Own Content
Yandex has announced that it has signed a deal with Facebook which will give the leading search engine in Russia access to the Facebook firehose for “public” content published in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, other CIS countries and Turkey, where Yandex also operates. Content will be available for indexing by Yandex as soon as it has […]
Ilya Segalovich, Yandex Co-Founder & CTO, Brain Dead & In Coma
Ilya Segalovich, Co-Founder & CTO of Russian search engine Yandex, has lapsed into a coma and is brain dead. Segalovich, 48, had been responding well to cancer treatment before unexpectedly succumbing to complications early this morning, according to a statement released by the company. Yandex listed him as dead; many news reports initially reported that […]
How Latvia Teaches Us That “Think Global, Act Local” Is No Longer Useful In Search Marketing
Last week, I was lucky to join a number of great speakers at the iLive conference in Riga, Latvia. As with all conferences, I learned a lot. (I simply can’t relate to those who go to a conference and say they’ve heard it all before.) I learned at least as much from the people I met […]
Yandex Launches Personalized Search Results For Eastern Europe
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 […]
Powered By Nokia, Yandex Rolls Out Maps Of US And Europe
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 […]
Yandex Starts To Drink From The Twitter “Firehose”
Yandex is the next in line to gain access to the Twitter “firehose.” The Russian search engine is announcing that it will begin integrating the Twitter feed into its search results. Twitter reported the deal to us late last week but declined to disclose its terms. As part of their agreement Yandex will have access […]
Yandex Joins Bing, Yahoo In Using Nokia-Navteq Map Data
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 […]
Russian Search Engine Yandex Leads $30 Million Investment In Blekko
Blekko is the either the fourth US search engine or the third if you no longer consider Yahoo a search engine. And the company has been able to maintain visibility and stir the pot with its persistent criticism of Google search results being spam-filled. Now Blekko has secured $30 million in new funding from a […]
Yandex Finally Files For Long-Awaited IPO
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 […]