Yandex’s new algorithmic filter “for low-quality business” is the start in the Search Engine’s fight against fraudulent sites, scammers, dishonest affiliates, and other low-quality “dubious” sites. Russian SEO experts have been publishing thoughts around the new update, as have many ...
Yandex introduced a new version of its Browser. Now users can choose its appearance, split the screen in two, and quickly take a screenshot. This means that they will be able to solve several problems at the same time: for ...
According to research conducted by the Digital Economy Development Fund, the analytical company Coffee Analytics and the Mindbox and Owox platforms, only 33% of companies in Russia use the metric LTV (Customer Lifetime Value) for measuring success. For comparison, in ...
Russia has become a leader in blocking phishing and malicious sites. The list is compiled by the international developer of anti-virus solutions, ESET. The report on web threats for the period from May to August 2021 says that the world ...
Yandex Pay has launched fast checkout and express delivery for its users. Thanks to the new Yandex Pay Checkout service, it will be easier to buy on the Internet. When you make a quick purchase, the name, address, and phone ...
In July 2021, Yandex bought the bank and financial services company – Acropolis, and has now unveiled a rebranding, and renaming. Henceforth, Acropolis will be known as Yandex Bank. Yandex applied to register Yandex Bank as a trademark in mid-September ...
Spectrum allowed for inference of implicit queries and returning matching search results. The system automatically analyzed users’ searches to identify objects such as personal names, films, or cars. Sections of the search results pages responded and augmented to different user ...
The Russian government has approved Yandex as a default search engine on all devices sold in 2022. As stated by the order of the authorities, the Yandex search engine should be used “without additional settings (by default)”. In addition, from ...
Yandex.Zen launches the first official course for bloggers – Three Steps to Zen. Through a series of video tutorials, you can learn about how the platform works, how bloggers create content for Zen and make money on it. The speakers ...
In 2020, Yandex.Zen fact-checked 11,000 publications, of which 6% were blocked/removed and 7% were labeled as containing potentially false or misleading information. In September 2020, Yandex.Zen announced the fact-checking program, which we covered in this article here. Since the beginning ...
