Russian Rambler buys 51% of Price Express
In a busy week of consolidation for Russian search engines, Rambler has purchased 51% of Price Express, a leading e-commerce Internet company and owner of several high profile web sites in RuNet. Price Express operates the internet portals Price.ru, Domoteka.ru and Tyndex.ru, which provide price and product comparison tools designed to help online shoppers make […]
Yandex wins business from Google in Russian Market
Yandex, the Russian mega-portal has signed a partnership deal with Mail.ru, one of the largest sites in the RuNet. Mail.ru provides email and portal services, much like Hotmail.com, and currently has a 5.7% stake in the Russian search market. Google had been providing the search facilities on this popular portal up to the end of […]
Yandex release desktop search for Russia
Yandex, the Russian mega-portal, announced today the release of their desktop search software; Yandex Personal Search The software can be downloaded from their site free of charge and runs on Windows 98, 2000, XP and 2003. It allows textual searching on the file formats DOC, XLS, PPT, PDF, SWF, HTML, TXT, as well as music […]
Rambler launches new online shopping portal in Russia
Rambler, the popular Russian search engine, has announced today the launch of their new shopping portal; Rambler Hypermarket. The project was launched in cooperation with eHouse Holding, a leader in the Russian internet shopping market. Irina Gofman, CEO of Rambler Media, commented: “The market for electronic shopping is developing at a very fast pace and […]
Oil boom driving the Russian e-economy
The Moscow Times reports on the startling effects the boom in oil revenue is having on the Russian IT sector. The countries leading IT companies have stated it is growing three times faster than the rest of the economy. This growth is no doubt helped by the renationalisation of the Yukos Group, ensuring this money […]
Yandex Founder Interviewed by Moscow Times in Russia
The Moscow Times carries an interview today with Arkady Volozh, CEO and Founder of mega-portal Yandex. After his recent trip to Silicon Valley there has been renewed interest in internet developments within the mainstream Russia press. While the interviewer here does not put any technical questions to Arkady, there is some interesting background on his […]
Russia's Yandex courting foreign investors in the US
There has been a renewed interest in RuNet developments this month after the successful trip by Russian mega-portal Yandex to Silicon Valley. The Moscow-based company met with several potential strategic partners including “leading search firms”. An announcement is expected by the end of this year. The Russian company’s visit to Silicon Valley comes at a […]
Yandex launches contextual advertising in Russia – with transparency
Yandex, the leading Russian search engine, have just announced the launch of a contextual advertisement program for webmasters. For the first time the Yandex Direct (PPC) adverts will be placed on web sites as well as displayed next to the search results. Showing a level of transparency which would shock most Adsense users, Yandex has […]
Russian internet has 180,000 web sites
RIA Novosti reports that there are now 180,000 web-sites on Runet, the Russian Internet domain. These figures were announced this Friday by Mikhail Seslavinsky, the head of the Russian Federal Agency for Print and Mass Media. He said that the about 400,000 domains registered in the Russian segment of the Internet were a huge resource […]
Russia’s Yandex wallet shows Google how it is done
With recent speculation on the subject of a Google wallet – it is interesting to see that Yandex have done exactly that. They announced the re-launch of their Yandex Money today, a system similar to PayPal which will enable users to pay, transfer and receive payments over the internet. Yandex Money is a joint project […]