Major news from Russia. Today, Yandex launched their long-awaited global search engine, Yandex.com. They are now officially indexing in 17 languages. ComScore rated them the fastest growing search engine, with a search volumes equal to Ask.
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I'm really impressed with the search quality - this definitely deserves some close attention. I'll be interested to see if this story gets 1% of the buzz Cuil.com managed to drum up. This has been a really quiet release, non-existant in the Western media - but Yandex is the best contender I've seen. Bottom line - it's *already* pulling the same traffic as Ask.com. This is not a start up but a product from a mature company with a strong financial and technological base.
Plus they are hungry and ambitious. They have not only fought Google off in Russia but increased market share over the last three years. Yandex have developed their own versions of desktop search, Adwords (Yandex Direct), PayPal (Yandex Money), Maps, Webmaster Tools and analytics. This is a long term player and as some Russian comenters have said, today marks a major turning point for them.