Yandex is a major information technology company operating from Moscow while officially incorporated in the Netherlands. The company was founded in 1997[1] and offers numerous services, including a web search engine, email, maps, a web based translator, a web browser and a cloud storage platform known as Yandex.Disk.[2] The company is often referred to in the west as "Russia's Google."[3]
Yandex search engine
According to website Search Engine Insight, "the user base of Yandex is larger than that of Google, with over 200 million users per month. The developer community of Yandex is also larger than that of Google."[4]
One of the reasons why Yandex is the most popular search engine in Russia according to Search Engine Insight: "If you live in a country that speaks a non-Latin-based alphabet language like Chinese or Russian, your native search engine will be more powerful. This is because most of the text that Google and other international brands use is in Latin script, while Yandex and other local search engines are optimized for their writing systems."[5]
References
- ↑ https://yandex.com/company/
- ↑ https://yandex.com
- ↑ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/23/turmoil-at-russias-google-amid-sanctions-war-and-censorship-a77429
- ↑ Yandex vs Google – Which Search Engine is Better?, Search Engine Insight
- ↑ Yandex vs Google – Which Search Engine is Better?, Search Engine Insight