Yandex LLC is a Russian IT company founded in 2000, which owns the search engine and Internet portal of the same name. During its development, the Yandex site grew from a simple search resource into a powerful multi-portal, which by the end of 2013 provided its users with more than 50 of its own services.
Yandex services are divided into several main categories: search and information, personal and entertainment, mobile, for business and for webmasters.
The name Yandex was invented by the founders of the company Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich, it was composed of derivatives describing the search technology, yandex is yet another indexer (another indexer).
Yandex search and information services
This block includes 24 main services. Services in this category provide the most up-to-date information on many aspects of everyday life.
Yandex. Search is the main search engine tool that started it all.
Yandex. Maps is a popular service that provides an opportunity to view detailed maps of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Turkey. Allows you to easily navigate in an unfamiliar place, find a house, street or location of the desired organization, get information about traffic jams, and plot the best route of movement. Includes two additional services: Yandex. Panoramas and Yandex. Traffic jams.
Yandex. The market is a trading platform where stores place their offers, here you can choose and buy almost everything, as well as find out up-to-date detailed information about goods, read customer reviews and leave your own.
Yandex. News is a news service that is selected and systematized automatically, creating an up-to-date picture of the day.
Yandex. Dictionaries - a composite encyclopedia from Yandex, which allows you to search for information in dictionaries and specialized Internet sources.
Yandex. Blogs are one of the most popular services that collects relevant information that reflects the interests and moods of the active part of Internet users.
Yandex. Video is a service that allows you to search and view videos.
Yandex. Pictures are another popular service for finding images of any type, size and color.
Yandex. Simultaneous translation - translation of texts and pages for 36 languages, dictionary with examples and other translation functions.
Yandex. Auto - selection of a car according to all possible parameters, search for advertisements for sale.
Yandex. Real estate - search for ads for the sale and rent of any real estate.
Yandex. Weather, TV program, Job, Taxi, Playbill, Schedule, Flights, Time - services with self-explanatory names that allow you to view the necessary information, order a car, book tickets, synchronize watches.
Yandex. Unified State Exam - demonstration tests of the Unified State Exam and the State Examination Agency, which meet the requirements of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.
Yandex. Catalog - sites manually selected by Yandex editors, the catalog is divided into thematic and typical headings, the resources presented in them are arranged in descending order of the citation index.
Yandex. People's Map is an original service that allows any user to create maps of their favorite places using simple tools.
Personal and entertainment services
This category includes services for owners of Yandex accounts.
Yandex. Money is a virtual wallet from Yandex.
Yandex. Disk - space for storing files from 3 to 10 GB.
Yandex. Calendar is an organizer.
Yandex. Mail is a mailbox.
Yandex. Photos is a service for storing personal photos, viewing photos of other users and participating in contests on topics set by Yandex.
Yandex. My Circle is a social network for professionals in a particular field, allowing them to offer their services and see what other users have to offer.
Ya. Ru - personal virtual diary.
Services for webmasters
A block of services that makes it easier for webmasters who have their own sites to work with Yandex as with a search engine. This block includes such professional tools as: Yandex. Webmaster, Metrica, Transfer of data about site content, Search for a site, Mail for a domain, Advertising network, Yandex XML.
Yandex API block, which includes 10 services that allow webmasters to place various search engine elements on their resources.
At the beginning of 2013, Yandex is the fourth search engine on the planet with 4.44 billion search queries.
Services for business - tools for advertising companies, firms and organizations. This category includes: a contextual advertising service, a directory for posting information about your company, the ability to order the development of advertising events and view attendance statistics.