What is Yandex.Search?
Yandex.Search is a web search engine and one of the core services offered by Yandex, a major technology company headquartered in Moscow, Russia. Launched in 1997, Yandex.Search quickly became the most popular search engine in Russia and several other countries in the former Soviet Union.
Yandex.Search aims to provide relevant search results from a broad index of web pages, images, videos and other content. Key features include:
- Search results in multiple languages including English, Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh and Turkish
- Spell check suggestions
- Image search with reverse image lookup
- Video search connecting to sites like YouTube
- Local search results and business listings
- Built-in weather forecasts, sports scores, stock quotes and more
While best known in Russia and neighboring countries, Yandex.Search is available globally. Yandex focuses heavily on search technology and developing innovative features not commonly found on other search engines. For instance, Yandex was an early pioneer in visual search results. The company also employs machine learning to better understand user intent and provide more relevant results.
As with other search engines, Yandex.Search displays a mix of organic results along with paid ads. Yandex aims to clearly distinguish between paid and organic links to avoid confusing users. The search engine offers an advertising platform used by businesses interested in reaching Yandex users.
Yandex is much more than just a search engine, also providing other services like maps, translation, browsers and more. However, search remains a core focus of the company and Yandex.Search continues to hold the dominant market share for search in Russia.
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