Launched in 1997, Yandex has grown from a simple small search engine to a popular portal that is currently used by over 25 million people. Today Yandex is the leading Russian search engine and portal, which offers its users key internet services, such as Directory of sites, free e-mail, latest news, free web-hosting (Narod), comparison shopping system (Market), e-payment system (Money), Maps, Greeting cards, Games, Encyclopedia, Blog Search and many more. All the Russian language sites or Russia related sites are indexed. Yandex audience is approximately 80% from Russia, 10% from CIS countries and 10% international. To find out more about Yandex, please visit: www.yandex.ru and company.yandex.ru/english/

Now the Russian leading search engine Yandex is in your mobile phone to enable you find what you need online when you are away from your computer, wherever you are. Type in the query in the search box and you will receive 20 most relevant results. Both Web search and Image search are available. Search results are family filtered (only child approved content is displayed in search results). The software interface can be set up in Russian or in English for your convenience.

Yandex is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with an office in Odessa, Ukraine and a research and development center in St. Petersburg. Russia. Over 500 people are presently working for Yandex. Arkady Volozh is the CEO of Yandex.