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Files under: News
Posted by: admin @ 11:33 [2. 10. 11]
The leading Russian search engine company Yandex, which completed $1.3 billion IPO on NASDAQ in May 2011, invested $15 million in Blekko, U.S.-based search engine company this week. It’s not clear why Yandex, which is loosing its market share to Google in Russia, put $15 million for a small stake in a tiny search engine [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 03:29 [26. 07. 10]
Google’s Russian subsdiary, which holds less than 1/3 of Russian search market, reported revenues of $69 million (2.2 billion Rubles) in Russia in 2009, wrote newspaper Vedomosti. That is ca.10% of Russian internet advertising market valued at more than $600 million in 2009. Google‘s net income in Russia reached $4 million (126 million rubles) last [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 06:52 [12. 04. 10]
The leading Russian search engine Yandex has reached 63 percent share of searches in Russia in Q1 2010, ahead of Google with 22 percent share, Mail.ru with 8 percent and Rambler with 3 percent, reported Vedomosti.ru by citing internet statistics service LiveInternet.ru. Yandex released new homepage last week. The rise of Yandex search share can [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 06:21 [28. 01. 10]
The Russian contextual advertising market was up 13% year-on-year to 9.61 billion Rubles ($302 million) in 2009. Yandex holds 78% of the market, ahead of Begun with 11% share and Google with 10% share. Due to Ruble devaluation, the contextual advertising spending in USD were actually down from $344 million in 2008 to $302 million [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 03:50 [15. 12. 09]
The deal that Mail.ru was going to replace its default search engine Yandex is now confirmed. Mail.ru has announced that Google will power web search and search ads on Russia’s leading online portal Mail.ru from January 2010. In spite of the fact that Google will be used on Mail.ru as “white label” (i.e., without mentioning [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 05:57 [4. 12. 09]
Russia’s leading online portal Mail.ru is going to replace its default web search engine and contextual advertising provider Yandex with Google from the beginning of 2010, according to Russian internet industry sources. As a result, Google will not only increase its search market share in Russia by 40% and reach between 33% and 42% of [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 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: Quintura @ 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 [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 15:07 [1. 04. 09]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 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 to [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 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 [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 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: Quintura @ 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: Quintura @ 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 [...]
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Posted by: Quintura @ 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: Quintura @ 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% [...]
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