Awareness And Use Of Modern Payment Methods In Russia
Many leading global companies have had to face that Russia is everything but easy to invade. As a current testament to this, ubiquitous forces like Facebook and Google haven’t managed to wipe out the local competition as has been the case in most other countries worldwide. Vkontakte still has a healthy lead over Facebook in […]
RuNet 2012: Unprecedented Online Market Growth In Russia Continues
Today I want to share some numbers for 2011 and fresh data reported from different sources for 2012 that shows unprecedented, double digit growth of RuNet, Russian Internet eco-system, and what potential it presents to those who are willing to conquer this very attractive market. Unfortunately, this year I wasn’t able to go to […]
Infographic – Who Is Using Google Analytics Worldwide?
Data privacy is a trending topic at the moment. Regulations and laws on cookies technology usage is now key. Most websites will run a cookies based web analytical tool or software like Google Analytics. Over 55 per cent of all websites in the world run Google Analytics, giving Google a comfortable 81 per cent market […]
Yandex Announces 65% Increase In Revenues In Q3
The leading Russian search engine Yandex, announced yesterday that its revenues had grown by 65% in quarter 3 compared with the previous year. With a turnover of 5.2 billion Rubles ($161.9 million Rubles) and a profit of 1.8 billion Rubles, Yandex exceeded stock market expectations. CEO Arkady Volozh said, “Yandex delivered strong financial results and […]
Yandex beats Google to infinite scrolling results – sort of…
Yandex has launched a new approach to its search engine results pages. Following experiments which have been carried out during the summer, Yandex now has “Infinite Scrolling” search results pages. The way this works is that there is an additional button under the search results called “10 More Results”. On the graphic below this is […]
Yandex: Russia To Be A Major Online Market – So Get In There Now!
2011 has been a big year for Russian search engine Yandex. In May it launched an IPO which saw it achieve over $1bn in investment and it has seen its share of the 2nd largest search market in Europe grow to 65% – more, in fact, if you consider its recent partnership with rival search […]
Yandex Webmaster Tools is now available in English
Yandex has translated its webmaster service into English. The service, originally made for the Russian-speaking website owners, can now be used by anyone who owns a website and speaks English. Yandex Webmaster Tools informs website owners about which of their pages have been indexed by Yandex, what search words were used by their visitors and […]
Google hit again in Russia as Yandex and Rambler announce partnership
Russian search engine Yandex is not resting on its laurels following its successful IPO last month but continuing to consolidate its leading position in the Russian market through a collaboration with fellow Russian engine Rambler. From 23 June, Rambler will be using Yandex to power its search results, as well as joining the Yandex.Direct ad […]
Advertisement on Mail.Ru, the largest internet company in Russia
Whilst everybody knows about “Russian Google” Yandex, today I want to talk about another big player in Russian online advertisement market – Mail.ru. Mail.Ru Group Limited is one of the biggest Internet company (more than 1800 employees) in the Russian speaking part of the World Wide Web and seventh largest Internet business in the world. […]
Three Busy Days At RIF+KIB 2011, Major Internet Event in Russia
RIF+KIB 2011, the biggest Internet event in Russia I just came back from Moscow after spending three days at the RIF+KIB 2011, the biggest Internet conference in Russia. I decided to attend this event to use this opportunity to promote SEMPO in Russia, and learn for myself about SEO/SEM business practices in this rapidly growing […]