Technological Goods According to a study by Qiwi and Svyaznoy, the end of 2019 saw Russian consumer purchase more than 200,000 smartphones (worth 4.4bn rubles), and more than 40,000 laptop computers – with the most popular model purchased being the ...

There are a number of forum posts and threads on popular Russian digital marketing forum, ruseo.net, indicating that users have felt the impact of Yandex becoming stricter on intrusive and aggressive on-page advertising and interstitials. One of the first instances ...

Following the turbulence in January, the SERPs in February have felt relatively calm and subdued. However, since February 18th we have seen consistent volatility across almost all sectors being tracked. Since February 18th (and included today – February 25th), trackers ...

Yandex has upgraded Alice with the ability to order a taxi via your Yandex.Station device. Announced via their Vkontakte page: Just say, “Alice, call a taxi.” Alice will clarify the details of the order, announce the waiting time, cost and time ...

Yandex Vision is based on the technology of machine “vision”, which will allow image analysis to obtain the necessary information. For example, automatically identify adult content from a photo. In addition, the service will be able to automatically recognize text on ...

It is well known that Yandex is extremely active in trying to give the search engine a “human face”. Google has a voice through Search Liaison, Developer Advocates and Webmaster Trends Analysts (Mueller, Illyes, Splitt, et al).  Whereas Yandex is ...

Yandex has released 5 unmanned vehicles on the public roads of Moscow; cars of the fourth level of autonomy participate in the experiment. So far, the first five cars have left on Moscow roads. A few dozen of the same ...

Soon, all Yandex.Taxi customers will be able to include their own tunes from the Yandex.Music service and listen to them through the car’s audio system during the trip. This was told by TASS CEO of the company Daniil Shuleyko. The ...

Russian Forbes talked with the new Yandex.Taxi CEO Daniil Shuleyko about where the company is heading and what services it plans to launch.  Key interview highlights that indicate future growth and business plans for the service are: Services Yandex.Taxi has two potential ...

Yandex has updated the default attribution model used within the Metrica analytics platform, and not everyone is happy about the change. Before, Metrica used the Last Transition model by default, but this has now been replaced by the Last Significant ...