Yandex.Catalog was launched in 2000 and has become a popular source of highly authoritative links in Russian SEO community, similarly to DMOZ in the western SEO world. Earlier this week Yandex announced [in Russian] that the Catalog will be discontinued in the nearest future.
SEO and SEM for Russian search engines
SEO and SEM for Russian search engines
Meet Yandex.Radio – personalized radio station and a new digital advertizing channel
Yandex has been working with data analysis and personalization of digital content for many year. They have started using personalization technology Crypta in search in 2012; personalization is also used by other Yandex services. Yandex.Market gives personalized suggestions to its users based on their past behavior and preferences. The new Yandex.Music launched 9 months ago does as well, and the results have been astonishing. Personalization increased the time spent on the service by 70%.
Yandex teams up with Firefox in Turkey
Big news from Yandex Turkey team! Just a couple of weeks ago the newest version of Firefox browser was released in Turkey, with Yandex.com.tr as a default search engine instead of Google.
Yandex Sibir or how computer vision can help in life
A few weeks ago Yandex quietly launched a new feature on yandex.com, which, although still working a bit shakily, can be useful in real life situations. Meet reverse image search based on technology called Sibir (Russian for Siberia) yandex.com/images!
Bye-bye keyword data from Yandex search
Still struggling with consequences of Google’s 100% ‘not provided’ keyword data, the SEO community gets another surprise, this time from Yandex. Earlier today, quite unexpectedly, Yandex announced [in Russian] that in order to protect its users’ privacy they will now start encrypting 100% of searches.