Yandex opens Swiss office to support international growth
Yandex has this week announced it is opening a sales office in Lucerne, Switzerland, which will be headed up by Bernard Lukey, the former CEO of Russian online store OZON.ru and aims to better serve Yandex’s rapidly growing European client base. The move signals the importance of international sales to Yandex’s growth, not only in […]
Online user patterns of Russian iPad owners
Tablets are rapidly gaining popularity around the globe, but does user behaviour differ significantly from that of PCs and smartphones? Last week, Russian search giant, Yandex, released a short report on the user patterns of Russian iPad users. Findings showed that the number of Russian iPad users has grown exponentially over the last year, with […]
Google Owns The Global Mobile Space, But For How Long?
Google is dominating the global desktop search marketplace, with its current market share standing at 67%, according to Trefis. While it is good to dominate, it is even better to own – and this is almost what Google does when it comes to global mobile search. According to Statcounter, Google delivers a staggering 97% of […]
Yandex steps up its game with NAVTEQ maps deal
Russia’s most visited website and leading search engine, Yandex, announced yesterday in a press release that it has purchased a license for digital maps supplied by world-leading location content provider, NAVTEQ. In using NAVTEQ’s comprehensive map data, Yandex follows in the footsteps of Bing and Yahoo who also rely on data from the Nokia subsidiary. […]
Google the search engine and why IP is so important when it comes to the algorithm
As a board member of SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Association and a multilingual internet marketer, I need to weigh in on many things when I consult my clients and one of them is what search engine to choose to market through. As a SEMPO board member, I also need to be aware of things […]
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 The service, originally made for the Russian-speaking website owners, can now be used by anyone who owns a website and speaks English.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 […]