Яндекс – Yandex Learns Languages

Starting Thursday 19th November 2009, yandex.ru visitors in Ukraine will automatically be redirected to yandex.ua with all its services localized for the Ukrainian market.

Yandex users in Ukraine can now choose between Russian or Ukrainian languages when using Yandex.
Yandex is offering website owners extensive partnership opportunities both technological (widget program, API Yandex.Maps) and advertising.
To read more about website development and promotional opportunities go to Yandex (in Russian). The linked Questions and Answers are translated into English after the jump.

Yandex: Questions and Answers (translation)

Q: I have a website. How do I benefit from Yandex?

Answer: The easiest way, ie you make a website, and Yandex indexes it and displays same in search results.

In addition, Yandex shares its technology and offers programming interfaces (API), through which the development of Yandex, you can use on your own site. You can get use it as a free resource and for search, and post your own domain, and maps.

You can become a partner on services such as News, Market or Car and get more exposure from the pages of Yandex. You can add to your site you need information blocks (news, traffic jams, weather, etc.), not wasting resources on their development.

Finally, you can offer your site info on the main page of Yandex.

Yandex – the infrastructure project opens up additional opportunities for the development of local and sectoral markets. Yandex creates products on which you can build services for its visitors – including those who come to your site through search results on Yandex.

Question: Popular projects easy to sell advertising, as well as being a small local resources? What can we earn?

Answer: If you have a well-designed website, even with low visitor numbers, you can earn extra money through the Yandex advertising network.

Yandex is shared with the owners of sites – participants YAN – earnings for advertising on their site.

Question: Yandex – is already the most visited site of Russia’s Internet. Putting it in a more and more content and continuing to increase the number of its users, does it pinch your audience?

Answer: Yandex does not compete with the regional sites, because it’s not it’s target market. Yandex is there to provide answers to questions. Yandex does not produce its own content, just creates technology for searching and structuring existing information.

If there are no regional sites, Yandex simply has no results to offer requests from regional visitors. Therefore, Yandex is interested in the fact that you develop.