Arkady Yurievich Volozh (born 11 February 1964, Atyrau, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic) is the principal founder of Russian search engine Yandex. He has been the company's CEO and a director since 2000. Arkady founded Yandex in 1997. In 2000, he left his position as CEO of CompTek International to become the CEO of Yandex.

Career

Volozh is a serial entrepreneur with a background in computer science. He studied applied mathematics at Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, graduating in 1986. After working at a state pipeline research institute, he started a small business importing personal computers from Austria. He went on to co-found several IT enterprises besides Yandex, including a Russian provider of wireless networking technology InfiNet Wireless, and CompTek International, one of the largest distributors of network and telecommunications equipment in Russia.

Volozh co-founded CompTek in 1989. He also started working on search in 1989, which led to him establishing Arkadia Company in 1990. The company was developing search software. In 1993, Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich developed a search engine for "non-structured information with Russian morphology".

As of 2013, he is worth an estimated US$1.15 billion.

Ilya Valentinovich Segalovich (September 13, 1964 in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod), Soviet Union – July 27, 2013 in London, U.K.) was a co-founder of Russian search engine Yandex. He was CTO and director of Yandex since 2000 until his death in 2013. Segalovich proposed the name “Yandex” for the search engine, derived from the idea of “Yet Another iNDEX”.

He began his career working on information retrieval technologies in 1990 at Arkadia Company, where he headed their software team. From 1993 to 2000, Ilya Segalovich led the retrieval systems department for CompTek International. He left CompTek to co-found Yandex in 2000. All three of these companies were founded or co-founded by his schoolmate, Arkady Volozh. He had two daughters, Avacelli (1987) and Arabella Ashley (1990). Both daughters reside in the US where they attend university.

Segalovich was a co-founder and supporter of Maria's Children Art Rehabilitation Center for orphans and children with special needs. He received a degree in geophysics from the S. Ordzhonikidze Moscow Geologic Exploration Institute.

Illness

On July 25, 2013, Yandex issued a press release stating that Segalovich had died after a long illness. However, the statement was later retracted, with the US and Russian media reporting that he is in a coma with no brain activity. His death was confirmed by Yandex on July 28, 2013. He died of meningitis, which came as a complication of stomach cancer.

Graduate and post-graduate student of the Institute of Oil and Gas named after Gubkin Arkady Volozh doing research in the field of processing large amounts of data. In parallel, he worked as CEO in which he founded in 1988. The company CompTek, which supplied PCs and automation of jobs held by domestic enterprises. In the process, the programmer had the idea of creating a computer program, which would allow to find in a large text data, taking into account the morphology of Russian language (ie, at the request of expression in any form). Together with Arkady Borkowska specialist in computational linguistics of the Academy of the USSR in 1989 Volozh opened Sciences company "Arcadia". In 1990, a team of programmers joined CompTek programmer Ilya Segalovich, a former classmate and friend Volozh. within two years of "Arcadia" Experts established by the order of the Central Research Institute of Patent Information and feasibility studies (TSNIIP) two information retrieval systems: the International Classification of inventions and innovations of products and services. Subsequently, the program recorded on the floppy disk, for three years sold to research institutes and organizations dealing with patents. By 1993 CompTek sells networking technologies, and not to leave the search technology, "Arcadia", whose activity has become less popular, do one of the CompTek departments.

In 1993, the first working version of the application for local search (on your hard disk) was written, which was named «Yandex». The word stood for yet another indexer (with English -.? "Yet another indexer", "another indexer") or "Language Index".

In the years 1993-1994 CompTek programmers began working with computational linguistics laboratory at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, which was in charge of Academician Yury Apresyan, a Russian expert in the field of structural linguistics and theoretical semantics. Segalovich studied the morphology and improved search technology, after a while he started to help Mikhail Maslov Dmitry Teyblyum Sergey Ilyinsky and Leonid Brovkin. Segalovich as the main developer wrote the program automatic morphological analysis, which was used in the search. The result of joint work of programmers to become a dictionary search, to take into account the morphology of Russian language, another of his dignity was that he was loaded entirely into RAM, and quickly worked.

The composition of Yandex in the first years of its existence,

In 1994, based on the technologies developed CompTek programmers have created a "Biblical reference computer" - information retrieval system, work with the text of the Bible. To convert to electronic form almost half of the book had to dial manually. Since 1995, the company worked on the project "Academic editions of the classics on CD ROM», which is intended to yield a complete electronic academic publication of Alexander Griboyedov and Pushkin Alexander Griboyedov with the dictionary language. By 1996, the algorithm for constructing a hypothesis was developed: if the desired word was in the dictionary, the search was carried out on the most like him, and they had already built a model of inflection.

With the release of Internet CompTek company in 1995 its creators have decided to set up a search program to work under new conditions - so the user can easily navigate the World Wide Web and find all the necessary information. To do this, programmers rewrote search program so that it has been working with Internet sites, first search was carried out on a limited number of sites, and then - around the Russian segment of the Internet, the so-called Runet.

1997—2000: Consisting Yandex CompTek

September 23, 1997 at the exhibition Softool search engine «Yandex.ru» was first demonstrated, and natural language query has already been implemented in two months.

"... In 1997, when we launched Yandex.ru, we had a boiling sensation swirling bubbles. We knew what we were doing something that it will shoot, and that no one around does not understand it. But it was not a solid awareness of how it would be. it was a specific, purely physical sense of where to go, why it is necessary for all, why we number one. we did not have the number one, but about understanding what you need to do to them to be. "


"Yandex" was not the first search engine in Russia: in 1996 appeared Rambler, and even earlier, in December 1995, - Altavista, with the latter was the most productive on the time server and has the highest speed of the competitors, processing millions queries per day two months after the search engine announced yandex.ru "Sic" (although it demonstrated for the first time in February 1996).

The search engine, bearing the name of the first Yandex-Web, indexed sites on domains and .mobi .su, as well as foreign Russian-language page. The program takes into account the morphology of Russian language algorithms were able to find the initial form of the word, has been possible to ask for the exact word form. query language includes Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT, and allows you to search within a document, a paragraph, Titles and other fields, as well as taking into account the distance between words. For the first time after starting the crawler weekly rounds of 4 GB of text on the 5 thousand servers. The found documents are sorted by relevance, the position is calculated by words, the frequency of mention of it in the document, the distance between words.

Search taking into account the morphology of Arcadia Borkowski Yandex team tried to sell twice: in 1996 - Rambler, and in 2003 - Google, but neither one nor the other did not consider this technology as something important.

December 10, 1997 it became known about installing the Yandex search engine by default in the official version of Internet Explorer 4.0; this was done with the aim of maximum localization of the product on the Russian market.

Design of "Yandex" in December 1998.

In 1998, now has a "find similar" to each search result. The function was available in natural language and advanced search modes. Search for similar documents produced in the image, or the portrait of the original. In the same year he came the first contextual banner was introduced sorting the results by the last change, the opportunity to ask polysyllabic natural language queries like "where to buy a car."

Yandeks.Poisk as of 1998, he worked on three machines working on FreeBSD for Apache: one car went around the Internet and index the document, one car was a search, and one machine dubbed the search engine.

In 1999, "Yandex" has indexed 32,835 servers and 7,237,683 unique documents. version of the search engine has been updated - she learned to add captions to pictures index, keywords, descriptions, titles java-applet, links, etc. Now you can limit your search to a single server or excluded from the issuance of the selected server, identify references to a particular resource;. anti-spam filters have been improved. There was a search by category, introduced the thematic citation index.

On the further development of the site Yandex needed funds. In 1999 Volozh started to look for emerging companies such investor, to keep control over it and still get the maximum profit from the sale of its minority stake. Turnover of "Yandex" in 1999 amounted to 72 thousand dollars a year, the value of the company, according to its own estimates, reached 15 million.

2000: Establishment of "Yandex"

In spring 2000 CompTek shareholders established the Company "Yandex" has the same name for the site management. Companies have moved all the rights to the trademark, website and search technology, as well as the family of the same name created by software products and projects (Yandex.Site, Yandex.CD, Yandex.Dict, Yandex.Lib). At that time, a strong interest in Internet companies showed investors all over the world, and Volozh able to negotiate with the investment fund ru-Net Holdings Limited (a joint venture financial group Baring Vostok Capital Partners (BVCP) and Moscow investment bank United Financial Group) on bringing 5, 28 million dollars for the further development of "Yandex" in exchange for 35.72 percent of newly issued shares. At the same time it launched the first among Russian internet business advertising campaign in television with the slogan "find it!". Since the establishment of the new company Volozh left CompTek and became general director of "Yandex", and Segalovich - Technical Director.

June 6 search engine has received an update. It was established connectivity with Yandex.Site program at the request of the owner. The mechanism of "parallel searches", when along with the search results from the web issued related information from databases Yandex and its partners (especially news agencies and online stores). Built parsing, enhanced integration with the catalog, there was a section "popular finds." At the time of the new system, on June 6, the search engine has indexed 20 million documents a volume of more than 200 GB. By December 2000, this figure reached the value 355.22 in GB; the number of unique IP users was 92 thousand, the average query length -. 2.21 words.

Yandeks.Pochta were opened, Yandeks.Novosti, Yandeks.Guru, Yandex.Products, Yandeks.Otkrytki, Yandeks.Bara and Yandeks.Zakladki, as well as - "an ascetic Yandex» (ya.ru).

2001: Ahead Rambler

In 2001, the search engine "Yandex" ahead of Rambler and since then remains the leader in the domestic search market. The success was due to the launch of the search engine updates: improved search links, began to be made morphological correction request, introduced "weighted citation index" and improved the accuracy and speed of search. The database Seach at that time was 38 million indexed documents (from the Rambler - 7.5 million). The number of search engine users exceeded 1 million.


In spring 2000, there were rumors about a possible merger of "Yandex" and Rambler, but the head of "Yandex" Arkady Volozh denied this information. Several ironically transferred Volozh reaction in the book "Life inside the bubble": there he attributed the following words - "But why do I need you? I do and I will do so, your a mess. "

In March, "Yandex" has won 6 awards "Intel Internet Prize".

From April 23 to May 28, 2001 in three rounds passed Yandex Cup - a tournament to find on the Internet, broadcast on the official competition website. The task of the participants was for some time to find in the search engine answers to the questions.

Yandex was launched - the system automatically place the content, later to become the main source of income. Who can post on your own "Yandex" advertising messages and manage (be text ads, choose keywords, stop, resume, edit). It should be noted that the functionality advertise with reference appeared on "Yandex" in the release of the system in the public access to the search query. Prior to the 2000s, the system was not wearing a name, buying advertising spots were produced manually via sales. Advertising placed over the first search result was also a text box or a banner between the fifth and the sixth results. The emergence of "direct" as an automated advertising sales system was due to the emergence of the network of small and medium business and the increasing number of players in the market, which does not get more work by hand.

Among other running services - "Zen-search" - a meditative search, which does not require entering a search term, as well as on-line dictionary (with ABBYY company).

2002: Out to self-sufficiency

Since August 2002, the company's revenue began to exceed the expenses for six months before the scheduled time.

"Yandex" has passed www.yandex.com domain law firm bought "Arbitrazhsudpravo" with a view to resale. In his defense the defendant claimed that the word "Yandex" has become synonymous with the winged and directory, so that copyright protection is not needed. Self domain is 8 years (2010) used to open English-language search.

In the summer of 2002, together with the Russian company of PayCash, electronic payment system "Yandex" has been opened. Also, there are "Yandeks.Kartinki" (image search); "Of Yandex.Market" - one was formed instead of services "Pick", "Guru" and "Products". Open service "Spamooborona" - filtration system of unwanted e-mails. The size of electronic mailbox for users become unlimited

Amount indexed "by Yandex" has exceeded 1 TB of data. The company's value, estimated at US $ 15-30 million, the revenue reached 60 million rubles, the server had about 160 units, the number of employees does not exceed a hundred, while the market volume of Internet advertising accounted for $ 10 million.

According to Nikolay Shestakov, who worked in the "Yandex" in the years 2002-2012 (now the co-founder of ad network VKontakte), "There were about 15, maybe 20, we were placed in a relatively small office, which was located on the street Vavilov, it was one from small buildings Steklov Institute of mathematics, in the same room as it were, and managers and programmers in the same place and the server was with us it was a "garage size" startup. All involved in all that is, was a very family size, comfort, where there Arkady participated in prodzhekt- some planning, and commercial activity, that is where I best Rabat probably have not seen than Volozh must pay tribute to " Yandex "that's still not all succeeded in this 10-15-year-old path of" Yandex "to lose from the same family of small format ...".

2003: The first dividend in RuNet

In summer 2003, "Yandex" has become the first in the Russian-speaking Internet company that has paid dividends to its shareholders, the total amount of which reached 100 thousand dollars The company employed while about 100 people, income is about 200 thousand dollars, the costs -.... About 150 thousand dollars..

The new, eighth in a row, the version of the design of the main page. Now there are adjustment type (Standard, News, Navigation and ascetic). It became possible to disable image ads.

There Yandex.Server, Yandex.Publisher and Yandex.SDK. The search engine learned to index the files with the extensions .pdf, .doc and .rtf, and search results are made possible to represent in XML format. Local Search version appeared on the official website of the Russian President.

2004: Start of educational programs

In September 2004, "Yandex" has announced the establishment of fellowships in the field of automated processing of Web data. Selected fellows with the support of written research papers on the following topics: an analysis of search queries, multimedia search, automatic classification of sites, automatic processing of the text and structure of the sites. The total budget of the program - 3 million rubles.

There were open services "Yandex", "Yandeks.Blogi", "Yandex. Wifi »and« Yandeks.Afisha ". The search engine learned to identify the documents in .swf format ( «Flash»), .xls and .ppt Edit search ranking algorithm: enhanced copies of the document recognition system, improved and advanced search launched geozavisimy Search (depending on the user's city of residence).

One of the main events in the history of Yandex just happened in 2004. The restructured company has become the Dutch as "joint-stock company Yandex N.V.» (which has been registered in The Hague) has acquired the ownership of 100% of shares of the company "Yandex".

2005: Opening of foreign offices

20 September 2005 "Yandex" has announced the opening of its first office in Ukraine, the first outside of Russia. With headquarters in Odessa and www.yandex.com.ua www.yandex.ua portal was launched specifically for the Ukrainian audience. As part of the new portal is planned creation of new local services and advertising sales.

the so-called "fast" search robot has been launched, running in parallel with the ground and designed to index pages are actively changing content (news sites, forums). Base "fast robot" at the time of launch updated every 1.5-2 hours and included 4 million documents. There was a program to search for files on the user's computer - "Personal Search" Yandex "." Service launched Yandex.Adresa, Yandeks.Afisha, Yandeks.Lenta, open the Yandex Advertising Network.

Since 2005, "Yandex" has become a logo to receive special "public" version. A new tradition was founded logo as of 1 January 2005, depicting the confetti and having the inscription "Happy New Year!".

2006: The first remote office

Yandex and Yandeks.Slovari (by combining other projects) have been launched. There was a "cache Yandex" - a reference to the saved "by Yandex" a copy of the document from the SERPs. The search engine "Yandex" has become used to the portal Mail.ru. Opened remote development office in St. Petersburg (the first remote development office).

2007: School of Data Analysis

The site was launched for testing experimental products Yandeks.Nano in which came in the same year, "Pulse of the blogosphere" (measured splash of user interest in a particular word or phrase) and "Yandeks.Kalendar". There were also Yandex.Fotki, service for conducting Ya.ru blogs Yandeks.Mirror (portal to download the free OS distributions), "My discovery" (the story of a user's search) was anaonsirovana Local Area Network "Yandex", designed to facilitate the users of Russian regions access to services, "Yandex".

March 27, 2007 Professional "My Circle" social network was bought for half a million dollars. Also, it was bought by a developer of mobile software "Smartcom", whose team became part of the mobile units "Yandex".

Free training courses for computer specialists - After several attempts to open the specialized departments at Russian universities own data analysis The school was opened in 2007. Initial investment in the project amounted to several hundred thousand dollars. This is not the first educational project "Yandex" - back in 2004, the company has announced the allocation of special fellowships for his work in the field of programming.

2008: Yandex.Labs

Service launched Yandeks.Metrika, Videos, Books, Auto, Time, Ya-line, Schedules, Internetometr. Bought Punto Switcher (the program automatically fixes keyboard layout) and "SMIlink" Having joined the service "Yandex".

June 20th office in Silicon Valley Yandex Labs (Yandex Laboratories) was opened; the initial number of employees amounted to 20 people.

In 2008 the company "Yandex" for the first time began to openly declare about the changes in search engine algorithms and give them names (before all the changes in search engine remain nameless) in the same year, "Yandex" has launched just two algorithms - "Magadan" and "Nakhodka" . As of the year 2008 "Yandex" was the 9th place in the world among the search engines.

Also, in late 2008, the company "Yandex" has begun moving to the business center "Red Rose" in the street by Leo Tolstoy, 16. Later, near the business center will be one of the best slogans: We work on Leo Tolstoy. It was the largest (at the time) in the country of the lease contract for the office market.

2009: Matriksnet

Came search algorithms "Arzamas" (formerly known as "Anadyr"), and in November - "Snezhinsk", based on a new method of machine learning - Matriksnete. This allowed to show local search results for users from the 1250 Russian cities. In December came the algorithm "Konakovo" as the package of improvements to the "Snezhinsk".

In autumn 2009, it was launched the Kazakh version of "Yandex» - http://yandex.kz

In 2009, "Yandex" has been recognized as the fastest growing search engine in the top 10 in the world.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that the need to monitor foreign investment in Russia's largest Internet projects. This statement triggered a chain of actions, which end was the purchase of "Sberbank" "golden share", "Yandex" in order to avoid falling into the enterprise-wide importance in the hands of foreigners.

2010: Yandex.com

Yandex share in search queries in runet first time exceeded 60% in four years. May 19, 2010 the company launched the English-language version of its search engine on yandex.com domain, and thus entered the international level. The development of English-language search has been opened in 2008 a California laboratory Yandex Labs.

April 14 portal was opened for Belarus (yandex.by) and search in Tatar, launched a regional search for Ukraine. New update "Snezhinsk" version 1.1, also came out search algorithms "Poltava" (Ukrainian update search), "Obninsk" and "Krasnodar". It was indexed social network VKontakte. A series of specialized services - Yandeks.Nedvizhimost, Yandeks.Rabota, Yandeks.Muzyka, Yandeks.Uslugi.

In addition, in 2010, "Yandex" has acquired mapping company "GIS technology", which in 2008 supplied the data for one of the key services Yandex - Yandex. In June 2010, it launched a program of work with startups, "Yandex.Start", under which was purchased in December Vebvizor - the program analyzes actions of site visitors. There have also been invested in Israeli start-up for face recognition on Face.com images. In December 2010, came the first version of the mobile application Yandex. Market.

2011: Out on a stock exchange

May 24, 2011 "Yandex" has carried out an initial public offering on the American Stock Exchange NASDAQ. It should be noted that the yield on the stock exchange was planned as early as 2008, but was postponed due to the global crisis broke out. During the placement, it sold 52.2 million shares of Class "A" at a price of $ 25 per share, due to what was to gain about $ 1.3 billion (of which approximately one-third will be used by the company itself, and the rest will go to shareholders who sold their shares) . Given the fact that the organizers of the IPO-banks have an option for an additional purchase of shares, the placement volume amounts to $ 1.43 billion, and 17.6% would "Yandex" free float. Previously the company's business has been estimated to range from $ 6.4 billion to $ 7 billion, according to the results of IPO valuation of the company was $ 8 billion. After the first day of trading the price of "Yandex" shares rose by another 42%, and the company's market capitalization has reached $ 11.4 billion. by going public a few dozen employees of the company have become dollar millionaires, CEO Arkady Volozh received 101 million, CTO Ilya Segalovich - more than 20 million dollars.

August 16 released a search engine "Reykjavik", taking into account the language preferences of users and personalize on this basis the search results

September 20 "Yandex" has entered the search market in Turkey - Run the appropriate portal and opened an office in Istanbul. Turkish users of available search, mail, news, and other services, "Yandex". In 2011 it was discovered the local version of "Yandex.Maps" with panoramas of streets and traffic jams, as well as the search for a site. Turkish "Yandex" was created within one year of the 50 people team with the intention to occupy 10-20% of the market.


In the summer, it became known that "Yandex" search technology will use the "Rambler". In parallel to the portal, along with runners began to show Yandex advertising. Also on the search engine "Yandex" went another former competitor and previously one of the leading Russian search market Sic. Thus, the only serious rival to Google was in the area of "Yandex", while in May 2011, the share of "Yandex" in search queries was about 65 percent, while Google's share - about 22 percent. On Mail.ru accounted for about 7 percent of searches. In the same year, search for "Yandex" on the video was used at the largest Czech portal Seznam.

Open service "Yandeks.Perevod", "Yandeks.Taksi" mobile service applications for search (apps.yandex.ru), «Yandex" learned to build routes of travel on public transport and road links. Held absorption Loginza companies (create services to authenticate to the site through third-party accounts), The Tweeted Times (news aggregator of Twitter) and SPB Software (developer of the shell for the operating system "Android", which is now known as Yandeks.Shell). Also, the share was purchased for $ 15 million in the US search engine blekko. General Director of "Yandex" Arkady Volozh entered the blekko board.

2012: "Yandex Browser"

In January Arkady Volozh said the company plans to enter the European market and occupy a second place after Google with a significant share of around 30%. In the same year, two offices were opened in Switzerland in January - development office in Zurich, and in March - sales office in Lucerne for a more efficient work with European advertisers. 10 April 2012 "Yandex" presented search service for the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in an experiment to study particles with b-quark; it is not "Yandex" the first collaboration with CERN: back in 2011, the company began to provide scientific center their servers. August 28 Yandex joined the World Wide Web Consortium, in which is going to participate in the development of Internet standards. Representative of the company in it was Charles Neville Maketi (Eng. Charles McCathie Nevile).

February 21 Yandex and Twitter announced the beginning of cooperation. microblogging service provides full access to the data. This Yandex users can find tweets in just a few minutes after their publication via Yandex. Blog Search or via http://twitter.yandex.ru site

June 22 "Yandex" has acquired a stake in the company "Seysmotek" software development in the field of geophysics, and provided her with their technology and resources for the processing of seismic data. Over $ 1 million was purchased share of 25% and established the project "Yandeks.Terra" - the company's first project outside the Internet industry. With this step, "Yandex" has announced the conquest of new, not previously familiar themselves, markets.

October 1 at the annual conference «Yandex» Yet another Conference proprietary new browser was introduced - "Yandex Browser". With version 1.1 of the regime "Turbo" started an advertising campaign to promote the browser. Soon there were Ukrainian and Turkish localization.

In December, a new search algorithm "Kaliningrad" was launched, designed to provide users with personalized search issue - the so-called "personal search" - depending on the preferences and user behavior, the history of its searches. It was possible to conclude an agreement with "Microsoft" on the use of the search Yandex as the default search engine on the Russian market for smartphones based on «Windows Phone 8". Also at the beginning of this year, "Yandex" has begun indexing Twitter. services "Yandeks.Muzyka" were launched, the web version of the "Yandeks.Taksi" (formerly Service was presented an application for smartphones) people search (people.yandex.ru), «Yandeks.Navigator" out shell for OS "Android" Yandex .Shell, the service "Yandeks.Panoramy" appeared panorama of St. Petersburg with a bird's-eye view, to "of Yandex.Market" appeared apparel section; "Savings Bank" acquired (75% minus 1 ruble share in the authorized capital) share of "Yandex" system.

As of 2012, the company's server park has reached more than 10 thousand vehicles, the number of employees -. Over 4.5 thousand, the volume of Internet advertising market exceeded US $ 1.7 billion..

2013: Fourth in the world

In early 2013 Yandex search engine is the fourth planet (after Google, Baidu and Yahoo!) With 4.84 billion search requests, with Yandex search engine is the fastest growing of the top five, with 28% in 2012. Rapid growth occurred due to the expansion of the Internet audience in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Turkey. The share of the Russian Internet market is 60.5%. By the end of this year, the number of daily queries reached 250 million. In addition, Yandex has confirmed its status as the leader of the domestic media market, ahead of "First Channel" revenue (last year he passed the "First" on a daily audience). A kind of global recognition of Yandex was the inclusion of its search engine in iOS 7 operating system and the Safari browser.

Released a new search algorithm "Dublin", taking into account the short-term user search preferences. Updated algorithm of the AGS (now called AGS-40), aimed at combating sites focused on selling links. It was announced on testing new search technologies - "Islands" (an innovative interface solution, the presentation of search results in the form of interactive widgets blocks) and "Atom" (personalization technology pages on the Internet). Out Search the downloaded image - based technology "Siberia".

It extends the functionality of some services - on Yandex.Disk is now possible for the money to increase the disk space (up to 1TB), on Yandex.market the opportunity to buy goods directly without going to the store site (the online stores will have to pay corporation commission 1% of the purchase price). Through Yandex became possible to pay for housing and communal services (with a commission of 1-2%). Significant update undergone Yandex: out detailed world maps (now a geo-service Yandex has become a par with its global competitors); an opportunity to record directly from the interface cards in various institutions (for example, book a table in the restaurant), for each new client Yandex will remove a percentage of the organization.

Over $ 80 million was bought "kinopoisk" site for the development of reference services, taking into account the personal interests of the user, and possibly with a view to open your online cinema. Open service "Yandeks.DNS" app store for Android Yandeks.Stor in "Yandex Browser" appeared sync and out of its mobile version.

The role of "Yandex" as a cultural phenomenon. There was a book Yandex Volozh: History of dreams, written Yandeks.Kniga (preparing to leave in 2014), completed filming "Startup" ( "Success Story creators of a major Russian search portal").

July 27 at the age of 48 years died Yandex co-founder Ilya Segalovich, who served as technical director. Information about the death appeared more 25 July when Segalovich was recorded brain death, and it was connected to an artificial life support. A few days later, after being disconnected from life support machine it was officially announced the death. On the occasion of the tragedy Yandex opened a page of memory. Condolences expressed Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

In 2013, the head of the company "Yandex" Arkady Volozh announced the company's plans to go beyond the search market and apply their experience in handling large data in other industries (for example, in deciphering the human genome). The first step in this direction was made in the last year, with the creation of Yandeks.Terra service.

September 1, 2014 Arkady Volozh resigned as general director of the Russian segment of "Yandex", the new CEO on September 1, was Alexander Shulgin. At the same time A. Volozh remains as CEO of the company.

2016

March 31, 2016 was closed Yandeks.Slovari service, provides search information on the sites of reference and encyclopedic content, as well as on the basis of digitized by Yandex dictionaries and reference books, has worked since 2006, and with the predecessors and Yandeks.Lingvo Yandeks.Entsiklopedii - 2001 of the year. The reason for the termination of the service activities are reported to have become claims from copyright owners to use the dictionary on the site. After closing the service Yandex has recommended his former users to start using Yandex.Translate.