Yandex Search facts for kids
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Type of site
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Web search engine |
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| Available in | Multilingual |
| Founded | May 2010 |
| Owner | Yandex |
| Created by | Arkady Volozh Arkady Borkovsky Ilya Segalovich |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Current status | Active |
Yandex Search (also known as Яндекс in Russian) is a popular search engine. It's like a giant library for the internet, helping you find information. It belongs to a company called Yandex, which is based in Russia. Yandex Search is very popular in Russia; in January 2015, it was used for more than half of all internet searches there!
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How Yandex Search Works
Yandex Search uses smart technology to help you find exactly what you're looking for. It can even give you search results for specific places, like stores or parks, in over 1,400 cities.
Finding the Best Results
Yandex Search also has a "parallel" search feature. This means it looks for information in many places at once. It checks its main internet index and also special places like news sites, shopping guides, blogs, and even image and video collections. All these results show up on one page, making it easier for you to find what you need.
Smart Search Features
This search engine is very quick to react to what's happening right now. It knows when you need the newest information, like breaking news or the latest posts on Twitter about a topic. It also has some cool extra features:
- Wizard Answer: This gives you extra information, like sports scores, right away.
- Spell Checker: It helps you fix typos in your search.
- Autocomplete: This suggests words as you type, helping you finish your search faster.
- Antivirus: It helps keep you safe by checking webpages for harmful software.
Yandex.com for Everyone
In May 2010, Yandex launched Yandex.com. This website was created to test and improve its search for languages other than Russian. You can use Yandex Search on many devices, like computers, mobile phones, and tablets. Besides regular web searches, Yandex offers many other special search services.
Learning and Improving Searches
In 2009, Yandex started using a new method called MatrixNet. This is a type of machine learning that helps the search engine understand what you mean better. It lets Yandex consider many different things when deciding which search results are most helpful.
Another cool technology, called Spectrum, came out in 2010. It helps Yandex understand what you might be looking for even if you don't say it directly. For example, if you search for a famous person, it might show you information about their movies or music. The system figures out what people usually want when they search for certain things, like names, films, or cars.
Since July 21, 2017, the Brave web browser has included Yandex as one of its main search options.
Understanding Search Results
When you search on Yandex, it doesn't just look for the exact words you typed. It also looks for different ways of saying the same thing.
Languages Yandex Understands
Yandex can search in many languages, including:
You can sort your search results by how relevant they are or by their date. These options are usually found below the search results.
How Results Appear
A page of search results usually shows 10 links. Each link has a short description, called a "snippet." These snippets include a text comment, the link itself, the website's address, popular parts of the site, and links to social media pages. In 2014, Yandex also introduced a new look for results called "Islands," which is an alternative to snippets.
Yandex uses "parallel searches" to show you more than just web pages. It also searches its other services, like news, shopping, and image galleries. So, when you search, you might see links to videos, pictures, or dictionary entries, not just text.
Solving Your Problems with Search
A special feature of Yandex is its "intent search." This means it tries to understand what problem you are trying to solve with your search. For example, if you search for "Boris Grebenshchikov - Golden City," Yandex might show you a way to listen to the song online from Yandex Music. If you search for "st. Koroleva 12," it might show you a part of a map with that address marked on it.
Yandex Achievements
Yandex has grown a lot and is considered a very important company in Russia.
Growing Popularity
In 2012, Yandex became more popular than a major TV channel in Russia, meaning more people used Yandex every day. In 2013, Yandex continued to grow, becoming even more successful.
Yandex has also grown on the world stage. In 2008, it was the ninth largest search engine in the world. By 2009, it was the seventh, and in 2013, it became the fourth largest!
One reason for this success is that Russia has many smart people who are good at math and science.
Yandex as a Common Word
By 2002, the word "Yandex" became so well-known that it was almost like saying "search" in Russia. When the company wanted to get back the yandex.com website name, which someone else had bought, the person who had it argued that "Yandex" was already a common word for searching.
Since late 2012, Yandex has even had more users than Google on the Google Chrome browser in Russia.
Yandex Logo
The Yandex logo is how people recognize the search engine company. Yandex has used several logos over the years. The very first logo was created by Arkady Volozh in 1997, even before the Yandex search engine was officially announced. This first logo looked similar to another company's logo called CompTek.
Since 1997, the logos have been designed by Art. Lebedev Studios, who have created four different versions. The current logo uses words written in the Cyrillic alphabet, which is used in Russian.
See also
- List of search engines
- Comparison of search engines
