The RussianSearchNews.com website is now entering its annual hiatus and will resume publishing on January 5th, 2022. Emails and forms may be responded to during this time, and we thank you for your patience in waiting on our response. 2021 ...

The user “sochi-russia”, a RuNet forum member since 2012 highlighted on December 15th that they were seeing a new SERP feature when roaming Yandex. This new yellow feature was later confirmed as a test by Dmitry Gromov (Yandex employee). It ...

Yandex Zen begins recommending posts not only to channel subscribers but to all users of the platform. This way channel owners using this format will be able to tell about themselves to a large Yandex audience and attract new subscribers. ...

Analysts at Yandex.Advertise conducted a study on the theme of the New Year and found out what Russians want to receive as a gift, what they plan to give, and how they are going to spend the New Year holidays. ...

Yandex has launched the function of recognizing goods in images using computer vision. In addition, a search can find the same or similar on the Internet. The functionality is very similar to that of Google Lens. Now in the search by ...

Russian search works a little differently than we’re used to with Google, even in countries like the United States that are also big. Within Yandex.Webmaster, you can choose which country you want to target (if applicable). From a user’s point ...

In October 2021, Yandex introduced a new algorithm/algorithmic filter to change the weight (and rankings) of websites that are deemed to have low reputation in the eyes of the consumer. Yandex’s new algorithmic filter “for low-quality business” is the start ...

From December 7, 2021, the Yandex.Zen has begun to take into account and display clicks on links within an advertising publication in statistics with actual readings. Previously, the algorithm perceived the user’s transition to a link from an article as ...

From the beginning of 2022, Yandex.Video will only index videos from hosting sites that have entered into anti-piracy agreements with the company. Now they have been signed by Rutube and NTV, in the process of signing – Megogo and “Moscow ...

Yandex will show doctors who are trusted by people in search results. It will now be easier for users to find and choose a specialist, while it is not necessary to search for doctors themselves on the websites of clinics ...