Yandex.ru, however, along with the rest of the sites targeted at audiences in the CIS, won’t be supporting IPv6 initially. Once that happens, Yandex.ru and the other CIS-targeted versions of the search engine will add support.
MB: Who has the bigger ad network, Google Ru or Yandex? MB: When we “test” searches on Yandex.ru and Google.ru, comparatively speaking, it seems that Google has much more ads on its search results page – do you agree?
New tweets in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, or Kazakh from more than 2 million Twitter users can be found within moments of being tweeted in Yandex’s Blog Search or by searching on twitter.yandex.ru.
While it's generally recognized that investing in a country code top-level domain such as .co.uk for the UK or .ru for Russia can be good for your local rankings (and will certainly do them no harm), Google has geotargeting tools that associate...
Also, for the first time, non-alphanumeric gTLDs will be allowed, meaning that other language gTLDs may soon exist, so, for example, Russian sites could soon have a Cyrillic gTLD rather than .ru. What’s the top-level domain (TLD) of your website?
Russian search giant Yandex launched a new search engine for mobile apps yesterday at apps.yandex.ru. Finding “Angry Birds” or other smart phone games and apps in Russian has just gotten easier. Yandex search for mobile applications is the first...
Currently, the infinite scroll feature is only available on the yandex.ru site. Russian search engine Yandex has changed the 10 blue links experience for its users. Starting Monday, Yandex unveiled a new experience, with a new twist on the infinite...
There are plenty of those: the Lenta.ru online newspaper, the Top 100 internet catalogue, the Price.ru product comparison site, and the Rambler-ICQ instant messaging service, to name just a few. The company is taking care of ad and/or search...
Russia has Vkontakte.ru; China has RenRen.com; and both Brazil and India have enjoyed Google's social network Orkut. Will Vkontakte.ru and RenRen.com Fall Next? Vkontakte.ru is proactive and it works around the language and encourages social...
According to comScore, the biggest social networks in Russia are VKONTAKTE.RU with close to 73 percent reach, Odnoklassniki with some 39 percent reach, and Mail.Ru - My World with close to 33 percent.
It also supports authorization schemes of a number of Russian services: Yandex, Mail.Ru, Vkontakte, Rambler, WebMoney, Diary.ru and Loginza," TechCrunch Europe reported. Russian search engine Yandex has introduced geo-targeted ads to its business...
One case study of a good use of social media to reach a Russian audience was Clearasil, who realized the best way to reach Russian teenagers was via an interactive group page on VKontakte.ru. Russians are very keen on social media, both for...
For example, .co.uk, .ru, .jp The debate rages on: international domains versus a sub-directory or folder structure. Which should you choose? There are several options outside of having a .com, .net, .org, etc.that have consistently proved to be...
For instance, Yandex succeeds in Russia (with a 64 percent market share) where Google.ru fails, largely because it's built around the Cyrillic alphabet and recognizes Russian grammar and inflection. First, the websites need to be in the native or...
Yandex (RU) Russian search engine Yandex features the following User Agents: Yandex (RU) Info: http://yandex.com/bots gives us no information on Yandex-specific robots.txt usage. Much as we may wish for all the world's search engines to take notice...
Alternatively, Yandex, Russia's largest search engine, stands for "Yet Another iNDEXer", which is a perfect form of punishment toward its search rivals Google, Rambler, and mail.ru, considering its size, growth, and capability to recognize the...
Russian statistics organization Liveinternet.ru provides a snapshot of how search engines are doing in Russia, which gives further interesting insight. It has even now been overtaken by Search.Mail.ru, which is powered by -- guess who -- Yandex.
ComScore indicates that Russia has the most engaged social media audience, with visitors spending 6.6 hours and viewing 1,307 pages per visitor per month -- Vkontakte.ru is the number one social network.
Traffic within Russia itself was dominated by local services such as Vkontakte.ru, with 14.3 million visitors, Odnoklassniki.ru with 7.8 million visitors, and Mail.ru with 6.3 million visitors. Recent data from comScore's World Metrix audience...
Gmail.ru is now a registered trademark, not for Google, Googling Google Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we've spotted but not blogged separately: From The SEW Blog. Thanksgiving Programming Note
