Yandex
Updated: 11/16/2019 by Computer Hope
Yandex is a technology and Internet services company in Russia. It is a popular website and search engine in Russia, with traffic close to or surpassing Google.
Yandex started as a Russian search program for MS-DOS called Arkadia, written by Arkady Volozh and Arkady Borkovsky. In 1997, they launched the search engine Yandex.ru (originally called CompTek) and offers search and other services. In 2022, Yandex switched to using Ya.ru as their search engine page.
Yandex available services
- Yandex.Connect — a B2B service similar to Google Apps
- Yandex.Disk — Cloud storage
- Yandex.DNS — Free public DNS (domain name system)
- Yandex.Mail — E-mail with unlimited storage
- Yandex.Images — Image search by keyword or image file
- Yandex.Money — Make electronic payments to vendors or other users
- Yandex.Taxi — Connects users with Russian taxi services
- Yandex.Translate — Translate text online
- Yandex.Video — Search for movies and video clips
Yandex also publishes its own web browser, Yandex Browser, which is based on Chromium.