Yandex Ru Overview
Yandex is a global internet service provider firm operating their operation across the world. The company founded in 1997 as Yandex search by Arkady Volozh, Arkady Borkovsky, and Ilya Segalovich. The Yandex is available in several areas named as Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. The firm specialized in e-commerce, transportation, navigation, mobile applications and online advertising. They have more than 18 commercial offices across the world.
In Russia, the Yandex is the 4th popular website. It is also the 5th largest search engine is only behind Google, Baidu, Bing and Yahoo. In 2017, the revenue of the company was $1.61 billion whereas the operating income of the firm in the same year was $223 million. The firm has employed more than 7,445 employees for providing their services across the world. The firm research and development center is situated in Berlin. The main head office of the Yandex is situated in Moscow, Russia. The company listed in NASDAQ from 2011.
Yandex Ru Operations
The firm founded as Arcadia. In 1993, it became a branch of the Comptek International. In 1997, the company launched their search engine. The firm released their Yandex Direct online advertising network in 2001. The company earned $17 million profit in 2004. In 2008, the firm bought the SMILink, which was a road traffic monitoring agency. Later they provided investment to Face.com which was acquired by Facebook.
The main products of the firm include Alisa, Yandex Search, Yandex Disk, Yandex Maps, Yandex Browser, Yandex Video, Yandex Traffic, Yandex Taxi and many more. The Yandex Taxi is an online taxi booking service in Russia. More than 3.5 million customers use the service. They also provide translator service to the user for translation of text in another language.
