Search results
History. In 1993, Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich, friends since their school days and by then working together to develop search software, [16] invented the word "Yandex" to describe their search technologies. The name initially stood for "Yet Another iNDEXer". [17] .
The word ‘Yandex’. Ilya Segalovich and Arkady Volozh thought up the word “Yandex”. Arcadia had launched a new version of a search program and they wanted to give it an original name. Ilya sat down with a sheet of paper and wrote down words that described the essence of the program, brainstorming around the words “search” and ...
The company Yandex. The company “Yandex” was registered. Its founders were the shareholders of CompTek. The ru-Net Holdings fund invested more than $5 million into the company, giving it an almost 36% stake. Other shareholders included managers and leading developers of the search engine. Arkady Volozh became CEO.
A search engine called “Яndex-Web” was unveiled on September 23. To demonstrate how it worked with large masses of information, the whole Russian internet — then consisting of 5,000 sites containing about 4Gb of text — was indexed. People took turns on the demonstration computer, submitting questions and receiving answers.
Yandex rolled out a new search algorithm that employs neural networks to retrieve search results based on meaning rather than key words. Named after the village of Palekh, renowned for miniature paintings often featuring a long-tailed bird from Russian folklore, this algorithm is aimed at responding to rare and unique queries — so-called ‘long-tail’ queries — that account for about a ...
First home. Yandex moved into its first office, once home to one the first series of Russia’s Academy of Sciences mainframe computers BESM, and then the Elbrus. Now Yandex had its own building, maintenance service and a server room. Up until that point, Yandex's servers had been hosted by MTU Inform.
History of Yandex. 1990. 1993. 1997. 1998. 2000. 2001. 2002. 2003. 2004. 2005. 2020. First steps. With the birth of the site yandex.ru still several years ahead, the future founders of Yandex worked on search technologies in the small company “Arcadia.
