Yandex

Yandex LLC – history, company profile (overview) and corporate video

   Yandex LLC is a multinational technology company headquartered in Moscow, Russia. It offers locally search and information services. Additionally, it offers on-demand transportation services, navigation products, and other mobile applications for consumers across the globe.

HISTORY

   Yandex’s origins date back to 1990 when the future founders of Yandex, Ilya Segalovich and Arkady Volozh, worked on search technologies in the small company “Arcadia. Intelligent Projects”.

   In 1993, Arcadia launched a new version of a search program, and Ilya and Arkady gave it an original name: “Yandex” (“Яndex”) – an abbreviation of “yet another indexer”.

   In 1993, Arcadia also became part of the computer and software supply company CompTek.

   In 1997, the search engine www.yandex.ru was launched.

   In 2000, “Yandex” was registered. Its founders were the shareholders of CompTek, and Arkady Volozh became CEO. That year, the company launched several new services: Yandex.Catalog, Yandex.News, Yandex.Mail, site hosting, Yandex Bookmarks, and Yandex Goods (the future Yandex.Market).

   In 2001, the company launched the Russian internet’s first contextual ad placement system, Yandex.Direct, allowing ads to be placed directly on Yandex without any intermediary.

   In 2002, Yandex.Images and Yandex.Market were launched. That year, Yandex and the PayCash group of companies together launched the payment system Yandex.Money.

   In 2005, Yandex.Afisha, Yandex.Feeds and Yandex.Dictionaries were launched.

   In 2011, Yandex went public on the NASDAQ stock market.

   In 2012, the company opened its cloud storage service Yandex.Disk.

   In 2017, Yandex.Taxi and Uber agreed to combine their businesses in Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia and Kazakhstan.

   In 2018, the company launched its first hardware product — Yandex.Station, a smart speaker equipped with the company’s AI-based Russian-speaking voice assistant. That year, Yandex.Drive and Yandex.Eats were also launched.

   In 2018, Yandex and Sberbank created a joint venture based on Yandex.Market.

   In 2021, Yandex entered into a joint venture with VTB Bank, LANIT Group, and computer hardware producer Gigabyte to start producing servers in Russia in 2022.

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Webmaster tools

• Site Search;
• Webmaster API;
• Mail for Domain API;
• Structured data validator API;
• Browser API.

Business

• Partner Interface API;
• Toloka API;
• Metrica API;
• Direct API;
• Yandex.Market API;
• AppMetrica;
• Yandex.Connect API.

Geotechnology

• Yandex.Maps JS API plugins;
• Maps API;
• API Yandex.Taxi.

Logistics technologies

• Yandex Go Delivery technologies;
• Yandex.Routing.

Linguistic technologies

• Translate API;
• Dictionary API;
• Predictor API.

Cloud technologies

• ClickHouse;
• Yandex.Cloud;
• Disk API.

Search

• Yandex.XML;
• Turbo pages.

Testing

• Gemini.

Mobile development

• Mobile Ads SDK;
• Intents and URL schemes;
• Yandex ID SDK for mobile apps.

Frontend

• BEM.

Social tools

• OAuth Authentication;
• Yandex ID API.

Machine learning

• CatBoost.

Safety

• Safe Browsing API.

   With more than 18.000 employees and over 30 offices worldwide, Yandex LLC is considered one of the largest technology companies in Russia and one of the largest search engines worldwide. According to Forbes, it is considered one of the Largest Public Companies in the World.

*Information from Forbes.com, Wikipedia.org, ir.yandex and yandex.com/company.

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