Neowin News Feed for: Yandex

'Russia's Google' Yandex to be sold to domestic investors in $5.2 billion deal

Omer Dursun — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 11:22:01 +0000

Yandex, Russia's largest Internet company, has agreed to sell most of its Russian operations to a consortium. The deal marks Yandex NV's exit from Russia amid tensions over the invasion of Ukraine. Read more...

Latest Firefox update removes Russian search providers Yandex and Mail.ru

Usama Jawad — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 08:42:01 +0000

Mozilla has removed Yandex and Mail.ru as the default search engine options in its latest Firefox release. It's currently unclear if this is due to an anti-Russia stance or something else entirely. Read more...

Microsoft issues warning about malware campaign infecting Chrome, Edge, and Firefox

Usama Jawad — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 07:24:01 +0000

Microsoft has issued a warning about a highly dangerous malware family infecting Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Yandex to insert ads into search results. On Firefox, it also steals user credentials. Read more...

Five Eyes reportedly targeted Yandex in late 2018 to spy on user accounts

Paul Hill — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 02:36:01 +0000

It has been revealed that Yandex was attacked in October and November last year with Regin malware that is thought to be developed by Five Eyes nations including the United Kingdom and United States. Read more...

Yandex rolls out Korolev neural net search algorithm

Paul Hill — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 03:04:01 +0000

Users of the Russian search engine Yandex are about to get enhanced search results over the coming weeks as its new neural net algorithm, Korolev, kicks in and starts delivering improved results. Read more...

Russian Chrome for Android users will now be prompted to pick their preferred search engine

Stergios Georgopoulos — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:28:02 +0000

After reaching an out-of-court settlement, Google has now made its Chrome browser display a prompt to Russian users of Android devices, asking them to select their preferred search engine. Read more...

Google will open Android to competing search engines in Russia

Vishal Laul — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 19:44:02 +0000

Google has reached an out-of-court settlement with the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation and will open up Android to competing search engines and applications in Russia. Read more...

Russian government fines Google for abusing Android market power

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 07:32:01 +0000

Google, and its parent company Alphabet, has found itself in hot water with regulators once again. Russian authorities found the Android-maker abused its market position by being anti-competitive. Read more...

Russian government wants to ban Windows, get more tax dollars from Google, Apple

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:32:01 +0000

The Russian government wants to force US technology companies like Apple and Google to pay taxes on apps and services sold online. It also wants to ban Windows from government machines. Read more...

Yandex Browser 16.2.0.2568 Beta

Razvan Serea — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:36:01 +0000

Yandex Browser is a simple and easy-to-use internet browser. Its clutter-free interface gives you plenty of space for viewing webpages. Webpages load rapidly even with low connection speeds. Read more...

Google ordered to unbundle features from Android in Russia

Matt Blowes — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 05:00:01 +0000

Google must change its default and bundled app agreements with Android hardware producers by mid-November, following a new ruling by Russia's antitrust body that says its practices are uncompetitive. Read more...

Google to be fined in Russia after allegedly monopolizing competition

Justin Luna — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:18:01 +0000

Google was recently seen abusing its power in Russia, by forcing OEMs to pre-install Google services, as well as preventing the installations of third-party products such as competitor Yandex. Read more...

Bing falls to #5 search engine, Yandex takes #4

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:28:36 +0000

Bing has been surpassed in global search engine rankings, falling to the #5 spot as Russia's Yandex soars into 4th pace. Unsurprisingly Google still retains place #1 with over 65% market share Read more...

Yandex becomes default WP8 search engine in Russia, Turkey

Paul Ferson — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:20:51 +0000

Russia and Turkey are receiving a different default engine to most WP8 handsets, with Yandex coming as standard on both. The partnership could help gain some control for Yandex within Turkey. Read more...

Apple continues thermonuclear war, teams up with Yandex in Russia

Tyler Holman — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:23:14 +0000

Apple is partnering with Yandex to use the Russian search giant's APIs in its new in-house Maps app, and is said to be discussing making Yandex the default search provider for Russian iOS devices. Read more...

Russian Firefox drops Google for Yandex

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:44:14 +0000

Although Google has been the default search engine on popular web-browser Firefox's search bar (located right next to the address bar) for as long as many can remember, Russian users will soon find a new... Read more...