Yandex has unveiled a new front page design. The new layout offers more space for personalization – users can add more widgets with all other gadgets grouped for a faster and easier access.. and it has yellow bits. I must say I like clean search front pages. I digress.. ‘Now, the space right under the search bar offers all Yandex users an opportunity to view their local information, such as current time, weather, maps, train and plane times.

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pic above Yandex foki map photo

Yandex may be about to allow its users an opportunity to collaborate on People’s Map. Whereby you can create and maintain a map of your hometown or any other familiar place. Linked to the Russian equivalent of google (in russian) >>> Yandex.

In addition to drawing features like buildings, roads, points of interest, rivers and forests over satellite images, contributors can change or add more information to the objects that already exist on the map. For example, they can correct an inaccurately mapped building or give a street its name if it was missing.

So I’m guessing you could take say, Dublin or Smallville and add bits and bobs as you know exist and voilà you have a home-made sociable map.

Anyhow, it may happen, I have no idea if it will. It’s a good idea.

Yandex is the largest resource and largest search engine in Russian Internet, based on the audience size and internet penetration. It partners with Firerfox’s parent + has helped Mozilla peg worldwide Firefox’s share at 30%

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Yandex the biggest Russian and Eastern European Search Engine has announced preliminary unaudited results for 2009. Ruble revenue grew 14% compared to 2008 and reached 8.7 billion rubles ($278 million). As before, contextual ads accounted for 86% of the Company’s revenues. Display ads comprised 11%.

“Contextual advertising proved itself a stable business model,”  Alexey Tretyakov, Chief Sales and Business Development of Yandex.

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Yandex has launched Yandex.Cities, a service offering local information for users living in content enabled cities.

“What we are aiming for is not to just build a city portal,” says Alexander Laryanovsky, head of Regional Development at Yandex. “What we hope to do do is show what information is available online and direct our users to websites with the relevant regional content”.

Now, you can get answers to locally relevant questions like ‘what’s on in the movies’, ‘what’s new’, ‘where to go on a Friday night’ and many more.

The first two cities featured on the service are Astana and Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Yandex (Russian: Я́ндекс) is a Russian search engine, the world’s second largest non-English-language web portal, and the largest Russian-language web portal. And it’s impressive. Yandex has some interesting stuff going on.

November 9, 2009, Yandex have released more detail on it’s maps.

Multimedia Information on Yandex.Maps

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LiveJournal have announched a beta release of a state-of-the-art search engine on LiveJournal, powered by the Russian search engine leader, Yandex.
Impressive.