Google is known as the world biggest and most used Internet search machine. But somewhere are some things different, so in Russia. The Russians using Yandex, which reaches 44 percent of the Russian search market. Do you thing that is nothing? Well, Yandex is with those 10 points ahead of Goggle, according to comScore. And just to mention it, that user frequency puts Yandex into the second most popular search engine place in Europe. And it is suggested that the Russian search market can expect to deliver some truly serious growth.
So far Yandex gets more then 5 millions unique visitors daily and not less then 40 millions search requests per day. In fact it is Russians most visited website! And last but not least it has one very big advantage compare to his competitors: it handles the complex Russian grammar and spelling.
After all, the online business is still in his baby steps, but grows daily. Further, Yandex is expected to list its shares on Nasdaq this fall and will reach a wider audience definitely. So, keep your eyes open when you read the next time about Yandex, the next seriously Google competitor.
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July 20th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
wow Denny, I had known nothing about yandex before, thanks for the tip!
Will they get bought by Google?