Yandex opened a new office in St. Petersburg today, expanding out of their Moscow base. Andrey Ivanov, who previously led the Russian branch of the Borland company, will be head of the operation. In the first months the tasks of the St. Petersburg subdivision will be exclusively in development but
Times have got harder for the online gambling industry in Russia as Rambler, the No.2 search engine has decided to stop accepting PPC advertising for the gambling/poker sector. Earlier this year I reported on the new law introduced to restrict advertising for the sector. Although this law was a little
Today is the 5th Birthday of Yandex Direct, the leading contexual advertising system in Russia (think Adwords). The service was born on 31st July 2001 and powers both the Yandex search engine as well as several other leading Runet sites. With Yandex holding 55% of the Russian market, Yandex Direct
The Russian search engine Yandex is partnering with the BBC to collect questions for a special interactive session with President Putin to be held on the 6th July 2006 at 1400BST. “We understand that the number of question will greatly exceed the number which can be answered by one man
We don’t often think of the Eurovision Song Contest having an effect on the world of international search but anyone who has watched the event will admit that the voting is notoriously political. It seemed no coincidence that the UK received “nil point” after deciding to turn their back on
Rambler, the No.2 search engine in Russia with a 20% share in the market, have released their financial statement for 2005. As expected they have seen significant growth, as with most industry sectors in Russia the online advertising market has benefited from high global fuel and raw material prices. In
Google signed its first accord with VimpelCom, a Russian mobile phone company today, making the search engine available to users on their handsets. “This partnership is very exciting. We are making more of a commitment to Russia,” Dennis Woodside, Google’s director for emerging markets, said at a news conference. “We
Information week is carrying the news that Nortel and Golden Telecom, a large Russian Internet service provider, are teaming up to build a large Wi-Fi mesh network in Moscow. The companies said that the network will provide access to about 3.9 million Moscow households. It will use 5000 access points
As anyone who studies the Russian internet market knows, internet access is a key problem. While ADSL/SDSL high speed connections overtook dial-up for the first time this March this growth primarily reflects the situation in the large cities, such as Moscow, St. Petersburg and Vladivostok. Yandex, the leading Russian search
Threadwatch carries the news that Seekport are partnering with an Arabic company to create a new Arabic language search engine: “There is no (full) Arabic Internet search engine on the market. You find so-called search engines, but they involve a directory search, not a local search. There’s nothing available for