Move over Google…Yandex is the top internet search engine in Russia
So you think that Google is the world’s favourite internet search engine? Not in every country so I’ve learned!
In Russia, Yandex is the leading search engine, with 55% of the market compared to Google’s 21%. Check out what Wikipedia has to say about Yandex.
According to an article in today’s Sunday Times, Yandex – set up by mathematician Arkady Volozh eight years ago, is now worth an estimated £2.5 billion and is the world’s second most popular non-English search engine after China’s Baidu.
Yandex is also planning to open an office in Silicon Valley, headed by one of Yahoo’s former senior vice presidents and this autumn will very likely be floated on the Nasdaq exchange – making it the largest IPO yet in Russian technology.
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