Yandex and ICQ team up in Russia

Mon 10 August 2009 14:15, Bas van den Beld

Russia is part of Europe, but when it comes to the web it's a whole different story. Not Google is the biggest dominance there, but Yandex. And when it comes to Instant Messaging its not MSN Messenger, not Yahoo Talk or Gtalk, but good old ICQ which leads the dance.Now these two Russian giants ha...... read more

Webmasters can change "quick links" on Yandex

Wed 5 August 2009 10:55, Editors

Yandex has introduced a new usefull webmaster tool for site owners which have been indexed by Yandex. Like Google Yandex has site-links, Yandex calls them "Quick links".Yandex has now introduced the option of moderating these links to webmasters. With the option it takes one step further than Goo...... read more

Yandex to add geolocation

Thu 30 July 2009 09:46, Editors

In Russia few will care about the Microsoft/Yahoo deal. There most people use Yandex, the Russian search engine. And as they say: life goes on, also at Yandex.Yandex has got quite similar functionalities to Google and Microsoft. They for example also have a control panel, which is similar to webm...... read more

Yandex secures payments

Wed 17 June 2009 14:03, Editors

Russian search engine Yandex has made changes to their online payment system Yandex.Money, making it more secure. They added the option “Strengthened Authorization”. With this option users no longer make use of passwords but of a one-time code.When confirming a transaction a user has ...... read more

Yandex search compared to Google

Fri 22 May 2009 15:32, Editors

Earlier today we reported about the changes Yandex made to their image search. Yandex was also part of the discussion at SMX when talked about the possible Google killers. This video is not new (it's from 2008) but does give a nice insight in some differences. Just before the weekend starts ...... read more