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Yandex N.V.

Yandex headquarters, Moscow
Native name	Яндекс
Type	Public company
Traded as	NASDAQ: YNDX, MCX: YNDX
ISIN	NL0009805522
Industry	Internet Search engine
Founded	1997; 22 years ago (Yandex search launched by CompTek) 2000 (Yandex company founded)
Founder	Arkady Volozh Arkady Borkovsky Ilya Segalovich
Headquarters	ul. Lva Tolstogo, 16, Moscow, Russia, 119021
Area served	Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Israel and Estonia
Key people	Arkady Volozh (CEO)
Products	Alisa (virtual assistant) Yandex.Search Yandex.Direct Yandex.Disk Yandex.Mail Yandex.Browser Yandex.Maps Yandex.Market Yandex.Eda Yandex.Metro Yandex.News Yandex.Video Yandex.Map editor Yandex.Money Yandex.Music Yandex.Afisha Yandex.Panoramas Yandex.Timetable Yandex.Traffic Yandex.Translate Yandex.Taxi Ya.ru
Revenue	$2.19 billion[1] (2018)
Operating income	$358 million[2] (2018)
Net income	$816 million[3] (2018)
Total assets	$4.17 billion[3] (2018)
Total equity	$3.5 billion[3] (2018)
Number of employees	8,854 (2018)
Website	yandex.ru, yandex.com
Footnotes / references [4]

Yandex N.V. (/ˈjʌndɛks/; Russian: Яндекс, IPA: [ˈjandəks]) is a Russian multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related products and services, including transportation, search and information services, eCommerce, navigation, mobile applications, and online advertising. Yandex provides over 70 services in total.^[5][6] Incorporated in the Netherlands, Yandex primarily serves audiences in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The company founders and most of the team members are located in Russia. The company has 18 commercial offices worldwide.^[7][8] It is the largest technology company in Russia^[9] and the largest search engine on the internet in Russian, with a market share of over 52%.^[10] The Yandex.ru home page is the 4th most popular website in Russia.^[11] It also has the largest market share of any search engine in the Commonwealth of Independent States and is the 5th largest search engine worldwide after Google, Baidu, Bing, and Yahoo!.

Yandex's main competitors on the Russian market are Google, Mail.ru, and Rambler.

According to the company, one of its biggest advantages for Russian-language users is the ability to recognize Russian inflection in search queries.^[12]

Yandex has invested in companies including Vizi Labs, Face.com, Blekko, Seismotech, Multiship, SalesPredict, and Doc+.^[13]

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34. ^ "Yandex Adds Foreign Content to Its Search Index" (Press release). Yandex. May 19, 2010.
35. ^ Rao, Leena (May 18, 2010). "Yandex Adds Foreign Content Filter To Search". TechCrunch.
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45. ^ Wauters, Robin (August 26, 2011). "Russian Search Giant Yandex Acquires Social News Startup 'The Tweeted Times'". TechCrunch.
46. ^ Rao, Leena (September 29, 2011). "Search Engine Blekko Raises $30 Million From Russian Search Giant Yandex And Others". TechCrunch.
47. ^ "Blekko Closes $30 Million Funding Round; Welcomes Yandex as Strategic Investor" (Press release). Business Wire. September 29, 2011.
48. ^ Shatalova, Ekaterina (November 28, 2011). "Yandex Acquires SPB Software Developer to Expand Mobile Products". Bloomberg L.P.
49. ^ Empson, Rip (November 28, 2011). "Russian Search Giant Yandex Acquires Mobile Software Developer SPB For $38 Million". TechCrunch.
50. ^ "Yandex Supports Geophysical Exploration" (Press release). Yandex. June 22, 2012.
51. ^ Peak, Krystal (June 22, 2012). "Yandex buys 25% stake in seismic data processing biz". Vator.
52. ^ Lomas, Natasha (March 26, 2013). "Yandex Adds English UI To Its Translation App To Widen Its International Appeal". TechCrunch.
53. ^ "Mail.ru, Yandex agree to place ads from Yandex.Direct on search engine". Interfax. July 25, 2013.
54. ^ "Yandex Acquires KinoPoisk" (Press release). GlobeNewswire. October 15, 2013.
55. ^ Lunden, Ingrid (October 15, 2013). "Yandex Buys KinoPoisk, 'Russia's IMDb', To Move Into Film Search And Recommendation". TechCrunch.
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