Yandex Görsel (2024)

FAQs

What does Yandex mean in Russian? ›

Yandex (Яндекс in Russian) is a search engine belonging to the Russian multinational of the same name specializing in services and products relating to the internet. Its URL is Yandex.ru and its name derives from the English 'Yet another indexer'.

In February 2024, Yandex N.V. announced the sale of the majority of its assets to a consortium of Russia-based investors. In July 2024, the $5.4 billion sale was completed, giving the Kremlin more control over the business.

Yandex Browser (Russian: Яндекс Браузер) is a freeware web browser developed by the Russian technology corporation Yandex that uses the Blink web browser engine and is based on the Chromium open source project.

Launched to provide users with a platform for storing, sharing, and managing files on the cloud, Yandex. Disk allows users to safely upload data from their devices to cloud servers, ensuring that files are accessible anytime and from anywhere with an internet connection.

Yandex, Russia's biggest search engine, is an on-ramp for child sexual imagery, experts say. Experts say the spread of images of child sexual exploitation online has reached unprecedented levels, calling the situation a major social crisis.

Yandex, also known as the "Google of Russia", is the largest Search Engine of the country and was founded in 1997 by Arkady Volozh. The idea was born from the realization that in Russia there are no Search Engine which was specially tailored to the needs of Russian users.

Riskware/Yandex is classified as a type of Riskware. Riskware is any potentially unwanted application that is not classified as malware, but may utilize system resources in an undesirable or annoying manner, and/or may pose a security risk.

Yes, it is a malware. Yandex browser is usually distributed as a showelware to others' products, installed tacitly and without user's sound consent.

The sale to a group of Russian investors would bring Yandex under the control of only Russian entities for the first time. Yandex, which went public on Nasdaq in 2011 through its Dutch-registered holding company Yandex NV, has a free-float of almost 88%, with many Western investors among its shareholders.

While it protects you from bad and malware sites, it's not safe for online privacy, and Yandex itself collects more data than other sites. Yandex Browser collects the personal data of users, including identity, contact number, age, email, site, search, etc.

Does Yandex sell your data? ›

We only use our users' data to create new services for them and improve those that already exist. We never sell any user data to anyone. We only process personal data that for a specific purpose only.

We asked U.S. consumers about "Most used search engines by brand" and found that "Google" takes the top spot, while "Yandex" is at the other end of the ranking.

Method 2: Uninstall Yandex via Apps and Features/Programs and Features. Look for Yandex in the list and click on it. The next step is to click on uninstall, so you can initiate the uninstallation.

Yandex, as any other advertising based business, tracks user data very extensively.

Yandex is said to index pages slower than Google. However, it is possible to send a new site to be indexed through your Yandex Webmaster account. Unlike Google, Yandex does not allow you to fetch your pages and force the bots to recrawl them.

While Yandex Translate excels in translating between Russian and other European languages, its accuracy may vary for less common languages.

Open any page in the language you wish to enable translation for by default. Click → → Translate page into a different language. Enable the Always translate from <language> into <language> option. Click Translate.

Click → Settings → System. Choose Language and region settings. Select the language from the list in the Interface language field. If you can't find the language you need on the list, go to the Page display language section, click Add language, and select the language from the full list.

Yandex Search (often called “the Google of Russia”) is used by more than 60% of Russians and is the dominant advertising platform. For any search marketers who may operate in the market (or might in the future) it will be worth watching whether this ownership change results in any significant changes to Yandex Search.