April 20th saw Maps and Navigator become an online battleground as users marked themselves as being in locations they were not, thus staging artificial “online” rallies. Residents of Rostov place their locations close to their regional government building, with messaging against ...

Yandex’s virtual voice assistant, Alice, has been given its own morning show, delivering a user personalized rundown of the latest news spanning music, sports, news stories, and other useful information. Alice product manager Andrei Zakonov has said: We want Alice ...

Ikea is one of the largest furniture retailers in the world and its flat-pack furniture has often been popularized in TV culture, such as the Shøp parody in The Simpsons. However, over the past 12-months, the furniture giant has seen ...

Right now, Yandex Drive’s car share vehicles are parked up and not in service, their roof decals have been updated to include messages such as: Hi, how are you? Everything will be ok Here it is boring, home is better ...

On Earth Day 2020, Yandex has shared an image and a message re-affirming their commitment to making the Yandex Eats service as eco-friendly as possible, such as eliminating excessive packaging and providing recycling instructions to customers. Yandex Eats was first ...

2020 thus far has been one of the strangest years many of us have, or will likely ever face, and the Yandex SERPs have reflected this volatility. Using data from a SERP volatility tracking software, I’ve collated the volatility score ...

Whilst the world is fighting the Coronavirus, large parts of the internet are still operating as normal and continuing to update, a good example of this being Yandex maps. The panoramic camera cars have been driving around Moscow and taking ...

To aid customers during the Coronavirus pandemic Yandex Maps have launched a new feature allowing partners (stores) to provide (sort of) real-time information around how busy the stores are, and how long the lines are to get in – to ...

Yandex Webmaster Tools has begun to automatically add monitoring to important website pages based on data being received by the platform. You can find the new tool here, and as well as taking the tools recommendations you can choose to ...

Yandex.Taxi users have a new tariff in the application – “Courier”. This is a delivery of small parcels weighing up to 10 kg. Couriers on bicycles, scooters and cars will carry them. The tariff is suitable for users and companies that do not ...