Posts on State of Search about ‘Yandex’

Yandex Launches Online Translation Service for Russian and Ukrainian

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We all have something to say about Google Translate. Usually we complain that it’s not good enough. Or we like it, because it does help us get started. What we do know is that we shouldn’t use it to actually translate a website.

One of the languages which Google has issues with is Russian. That is one of the reasons why Yandex is bigger and better in Russia. Now Yandex is making use of that extra knowledge by launching a Google Translate competitor for the languages Google is struggling with: Russian and Ukrainian. (more…)

Yandex sees huge growth: 43% revenue increase in a year

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It’s that time of the year again! We are seeing numbers from all the major companies world wide, including the search engines. This Thursday Google will announce their numbers. But they might have a hard time beating the growth numbers which Yandex has produced. The Russian giants sees a growth of no less than 43% on a year to year basis.

I guess when Barry wrote about the alternative for Google last week, he was right when it comes to money. The company’s ruble revenue grew to 12.5 billion rubles ($410 million). Compared to 2009 that is an increase of 43%. They mainly make that money via contextual advertising. (more…)

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