In March, Yandex.Market service experts recorded a sharp jump in demand for laptops. The peak occurred on March 19 (the number of user conversions to online store offers increased by 85% compared to March 5). Also, demand growth began on March 30 ...

Russian consumers and service providers, like most of the world, are quickly adapting and changing their relationships and how they interact. Focusing on the first week of lockdown, analysts from Yandex.Kassa* have analyzed payments made through the system for the ...

It’s estimated that Russia has almost 79-million smartphone users, and this is expected to grow to more than 93-million by 2021. As a result, the mobile search experience and mobile SEO has taken heavy focus in the past couple of ...

Yandex has introduced further site comparison parameters, meaning webmasters can compare their websites with others in terms of Yandex’s quality indicators, identifying opportunities and areas for improvement. New indicators include: Profile presence in Yandex.Directory (how to add your business to ...

This is one for the data nerds. Whilst the world is battling against Coronavirus through stringent isolation and quarantine measures, Yandex have used the many data sources available at their disposal and formed a self-isolation index. The self-isolation index is ...

Yandex recently introduced a feature within Webmaster Tools allowing webmasters to better understand how Yandex views the verified website, and which featured snippets and rich results the site does – and doesn’t – qualify for. The special results Webmaster currently ...

The Yandex.Dialogs team has pushed changes that have significantly reduced the time it takes to publish new skills, cutting the time from hours to ~10 minutes. The change, perhaps in correlation with the increase in home-working and Alice enabled devices ...