Yandex

Russian version of Google, multilingual search engine

 http://yandex.com  
Founders: Arkady Volozh, Arkady Borkovsky, Ilya Segalovich

Staff: 6271
Constitutes: search engine

Yandex has been called the "Google of Russia". It is the largest tech firm in Russia. As of January 2018, the Russian version, Yandex.ru was the 2nd most popular website in Russia and the 29th most popular globally. The English version is http://yandex.com.

Israel

The founder of Yandex, Arkady Volozh, was born in the then Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic in 1964 to a Russian Jewish family. Both he and his parents moved to Israel in 2014. In June 2022 Volozh resigned as CEO of Dutch-registered Yandex N.V., which owns the Russian Yandex, and stepped down from the board of directors after he was targeted by EU sanctions. Yandex faced months of instability after the start of the 2022 conflict with Ukraine, with many employees leaving the country. In April 2022, CEO Elena Bunina resigned and moved to Israel,while Yandex considered relocating some 800 developers from Russia to the country.

Lack of subject-specific blocking

As of January 2018, a page from ISGP was the #8 hit on Yandex for the search term "Dutroux affair" - and several other search engines such as Yahoo, Bing, Ecosia and Gigablast also had the page in their top 10 results. By contrast, neither Google, StartPage nor Ask.com returned any hits from the ISGP site in the top 100 when the search term was queried for, although all three had indexed the page.

Wikispooks was #1 for the search term "7th floor group" in January 2018 (as it was for Ask.com, Bing, Ecosia Google and Yahoo), in contrast to DuckDuckGo, which listed it at #30, and Baidu, which didn't include the site in the top #30.

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