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Files under: News
Posted by: Yakov @ 04:48 [26. 10. 09]
The alternative search engines held only 1.3 percent share of searches in Russia in August 2009, reported Vedomosti by citing data from comScore. The Russian search market leader, Yandex held 54.5 percent share of searches, ahead of Google (34.5%), Mail.ru (7.4%), Rambler (1.9%) and Microsoft’s Bing (0.4%). According to comScore, there were 21.5 million search users [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 07:47 [14. 09. 09]
Jennifer Trelewicz, who was CTO of Google Russia, has left Google to join Russia’s leading online portal Mail.ru as Deputy CTO. Jennifer was CTO of Google in Russia for two years. Before that, she worked as Director of IBM’s first R&D lab in Russia.
Followed by rejection of its acquisition of Begun contextual advertising service in [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 15:07 [1. 04. 09]
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Files under: News, Tech
Posted by: Yakov @ 00:48 [6. 10. 08]
The acquisition of contextual advertising firm Begun by Google was expected to be completed in September 2008. According to business daily newspaper Vedomosti, the consideration of the deal by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) has been postponed until October 22. The newspaper found out that FAS requested some additional documents from the sellers [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 01:03 [2. 09. 08]
It wasn’t a long ago when Google was doing a bench advertising in Moscow to build brand awareness in Russia. In a much bigger response, the leading Russian search engine Yandex has launched an outdoor advertising campaign called “Any Questions?” The idea behind is that answers to any questions can be found on Yandex. The [...]
Files under: Inside View, News
Posted by: Yakov @ 12:27 [4. 08. 08]
The founder of Metalloinvest holding and owner of Kommersant publishing house, Alisher Usmanov is becoming a major investor in Russian internet, reported business daily Vedomosti. According to newspaper, he is negotiating an acquisition of a 10%-20% stake in Russia’s leading search engine Yandex from the founding managers of the company as well as via new [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 16:27 [18. 07. 08]
Rambler Media, which operates Russia’s 5th leading site Rambler.ru, agreed to sell its Russian contextual advertising company, Begun, for $140 million to Google as well as to outsource search and contextual advertising on its web properties to Google. As a result of the deal, Google will significantly enhance its position in Russia by getting access [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 23:50 [6. 06. 08]
Being behind Yandex in Russia in terms of a number of searches, Google launched its first outdoor advertising campaign in the country called “Moscow 2.0″.
The campaign, whose tagline is “Know more on Google.ru“, includes information messages about the city of Moscow on 5.5 thousand ad places in Moscow, including on 24 billboards, 58 benches and [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 23:36 [20. 05. 08]
The leading Russian search engine Yandex is expected to raise up to $2 billion at initial public offering (IPO) of shares in New York in the upcoming autumn based on the company’s preliminary valuation of $5 billion, according to Reuters. Yandex is said to have mandated the investment banks Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Renaissance [...]
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Posted by: Yakov @ 00:01 [14. 04. 08]
In February 2008, 47.4% of all searches in Russia were conducted on Yandex, followed by Google (31.2%), Rambler (9.7%), Mail.ru (7%), Yahoo! (1.3%), AOL (1.1%), and Microsoft (0.6%), says a new study of Russian Internet usage from comScore.
The results of the study will imply that the Russian alternative search engines including Quintura.ru held 0.5% share [...]
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