Yandex is not only a popular search engine, but also a leading IT company in Russia and an Internet portal with many services. According to statistics, Yandex is in 4th place among all search engines in terms of the number of requests from users. The site itself yandex.ru in the international ranking Alexa is in 18th place, and in Russia in first.
Instructions
Step 1
In 1989, Robert Stubblebine, an English teacher from the United States, and his student Arkady Volozh, a talented programmer and entrepreneur, created CompTek. However, Volozh was not satisfied with the modest fate of a personal computer seller. He was seriously interested in data processing systems. Arkady Volozh dreamed of writing an application that would help to search for information in large texts. In the same 1989, the Arcadia enterprise appeared, the founder of which was the programmer Volozh and the specialist in computer linguistics Arkady Borkovsky. Together they created several search programs, including the International Classification of Inventions and the Classifier of Goods and Services.
Step 2
The name "Yandex" appeared by accident. One of the directors of the company wrote down all the phrases that could reflect the essence of search technology, and then came up with their derivatives. Yandex is an abbreviation for yet another indexer, which means “another indexer”.
Step 3
In 1993 CompTek acquired Arcadia. While the process of merging was going on, a program for a convenient search for information on the hard disk of a computer was born, which was named "Yandex". She took into account not only the semantics, but also the morphology of the word. After 2 years, it was decided to use this program to search the Internet. Initially, the work was carried out with a small amount of resources, but then it became possible to search for the necessary information throughout the entire Runet.
Step 4
Officially, the new search engine Yandex.ru was announced on September 23, 1997. By that time, Altavista and Rambler were successfully operating in the Russian segment of the Internet, and the first was based on the most powerful servers for that time and was capable of processing several million requests daily.
Step 5
In 1999, Yandex brought CompTek $ 72,000 in profit and entered the top seven most popular sites on the Russian-language Internet, and in April 2000, 35, 72 percent of Yandex shares were acquired by ru-Net Holdings for a considerable amount - 5,280,000 dollars. Arkady Volozh was appointed General Director. In the same year, Yandex ceased to be a department of CompTek and became a completely independent organization.
Step 6
In 2001, Yandex's search algorithms underwent significant changes. The developers have improved link search, taught the system to correct the morphology of queries, and introduced a thematic citation index (TCI). Search speed and accuracy have increased several times. In terms of popularity and range of opportunities, Yandex has overtaken Rambler and still does not give up the palm. The year 2001 marks the birth of the Yandex. Direct contextual advertising system, which literally within a year became the main source of the company's profit.
Step 7
Yandex as a company became self-sufficient in 2002, and in 2003 the shareholders received the first dividends.
Step 8
In 2005 Yandex was the first to make itself known at the international level by opening a branch in Odessa (Ukraine) and registering the www.yandex.ua domain. Over the course of several years, development offices have opened in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kiev. Sales offices began operating in Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk. In 2008, Yandex Labs, a subsidiary of Yandex, appeared in California. In the same year, the Kazakh version of the search engine was launched, and two years later - the Belarusian one. In 2011, Yandex appeared with localization for Turkish-speaking users.
Step 9
In 2007, Yandex took over the social network My Circle, spending about $ 1,500,000 for it. The goal was clear - to make Yandex's services more social, to enable people not only to receive information, but also to share it, to communicate with like-minded people.
Step 10
2010 was a landmark year for the Yandex search engine. It was then that the domain www.yandex.com was registered. On May 24, 2011 Yandex entered the NASDAQ stock exchange. The initial stock-throw alone earned the company $ 1.3 billion, which is the second result. Google is in first place with $ 1,670,000,000.
Step 11
In 2012, Yandex. Browser appeared, and the Russian State Duma approved a law in which Yandex and the social network VKontakte were named national broadcasters of information and strategic enterprises. In 2012, Yandex surpassed Channel One in terms of the number of daily audiences, becoming the leader of the Russian media market. In 2013, more people turned to Yandex as a search engine than Microsoft, which gave the domestic Internet giant the right to take the fourth line in the ranking of world search engines.
