RIP Ilya Segalovich, Yandex Co-Founder & CTO
Ilya Segalovich, Co-Founder & CTO of Russian search engine Yandex, has died suddenly at the age of 48. Segalovich had been responding well to cancer treatment before unexpectedly succumbing to complications early this morning, according to a statement released by the company. Segalovich…
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Google No Longer Powering Russian Internet Company Searches As Mail.ru Takes All Queries In-House
Russian Internet company Mail.ru Group released an official announcement that they will be handling all queries made by Search Mail.ru users from here on out. According to TheNextWeb.com, Google previously powered 60 percent of the searches performed o…
Yandex Turns Up The Dial On Personalized Search
The Russian search engine Yandex has announced changes to how it presents personalized search results, saying that personalization is now based on what’s happening within a single search session. When the company launched personalized results late last year, it was based primarily on looking…
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Yandex Announces “Interactive Snippets” & SERP Redesign At Moscow Conference
Yandex has presented what it claims is a new concept in search engine results pages to a Russian audience at an online industry conference in Moscow. They’ve nicknamed the new concept “Islands,” but are describing it functionally as “Interactive Snippets” and the next step on from rich snippets. To…
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