Yandex

Moscow tech giant

Yandex is a Russian technology company best known for its search engine, the dominant one in Russia.

The company also operates services similar to Western tech giants: maps, email, ride-hailing, cloud storage, and a voice assistant.

I used Yandex to find Russian-language sources.

Outside Russia, Yandex often appears in discussions of internet censorship and state influence over technology companies.

Russian

Moscow

Russia's capital city

Siberia · sanctions · localization · domestic · state-controlled

search

query

Request for information

ranking · autocomplete · relevance · filtering · web search · reverse image · search engine · market share · Baidu

services

Navigator

Branded product name

  • MusicFormal study of sound arts
  • MarketNamed trading institution
  • AliceCommon female name

Zen · ride-hailing · subscription

technology

algorithm

Finite problem-solving procedure

cloud computing · data analysis · self-driving · crowdsourcing · NLP · recommendation engine · computer vision

Categories
Opposites
geographic/corporate rivalry

YandexGoogle

Dominant web search provider

Silicon Valley · Alphabet · Microsoft · Amazon · Apple

tech ecosystem allegiance

YandexGoogle

Dominant web search provider

Uber · Google Maps · Gmail · AWS

corporate-state relationship

YandexGoogle

Dominant web search provider

DuckDuckGo · Signal · Mozilla · Proton

Family

index

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Concrete · Rated G