Category Archives: Yandex

Yandex launches schema.org markup support for movies

Yandex search team launching movie support for schema.org (Schema.org/Movie).

This means that the owners of web sites have the opportunity to make their web pages about films more informative and attractive.

Schema.org/Movie snippets are suitable for marking the page where the main content is the film and its main characteristics/ description.

Snippets of a page with information about the movie may contain:

• Genre of the creative work;
• Date of first broadcast/publication;
• The names of actors, directors, producers, composers;
• A brief description of the film;
• The duration of the film;
• Original language;
• An indication of the fact that the film is suitable for family viewing (isFamilyFriendly);
• The production company or studio that made the movie, TV series, season, or episode, or video.(productionCompany).

 

Example of structured snippet obtained using markup Movie:

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kavkazkaya

Yandex actively testing audioobject snippets in search results, but they are not ready yet.

Schema.org is a joint effort between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and Yandex.

Yandex launches new Internet browser

 

Yandex launches new Internet browser  version 1.0.1084.5402

 

Cloud-based browsing is a next-generation answer to the challenges of the modern internet,” said Arkady Volozh, CEO of Yandex. “To make the internet experience faster, easier and safer for everyone, we have built a cloud-based browser that integrates the best of our products and services and is open to other web developers.”

 

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The new browser is available for download at: browser.yandex.com

Yandex announced the release of Yandex search plugin

Yandex announced the release of Yandex search plugins for popular CMS

Up to date, Yandex search plugins are available for the following add-on content management systems: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and ModX, which are able to automatically to find about new documents on the site and generate requests for the indexing of these documents.

To use Yandex site search to your site, your site must be indexed by Yandex.

How to install a Yandex Search WordPress Plugin?

Go to the Yandex CMS download page:

Yandex CMS Plugin

Download, uploud and activate plugin trought WP admin section.

 

WP Yandex Search

 

Set your key, login, search ID

For example:
site.yandex.ru/ping.xml?urls=&login=siteuser&search_id=888888&key=fbfda298800616f2c53df77e250a21a

Advantages:

Fast indexing of all web pages on your site by Yandex bots!
You can provide additional relevant information, and search results to your visitors.

You can see example of plugin search results.

 

Yandex -10 Gb Data Storage For Free!

Yandex -10 Gb Data Storage For Free!

 

Yandex launched a beta of Yandex Disk. Now Yandex Disk cloud services are available, with the ability to users to store their files and access from different internet-enabled devices.

According to Yandex, web users can upload documents, photos, music, or videos in any format to Yandex Disk.

Yandex Disk providing to users an opportunity to upload files to the service for free.

 
Yandex Disk

 

Yandex Disk cloud services can integrate with data from Yandex Mail, and probably this can be serious benefit for users. Files that stored into Yandex Disk can survive in case of the loss of or damage to users computers.

Users can get access to crucial documents loaded in the disc (eg, copies of personal ID documents), from anywhere in the world where there is Internet access.

Obviously Yandex constantly trying to retain customers and provide them with new services. Perhaps they still underestimate the social networks and have no intention to develop something new. But, strengthening the positions in internet payments field is a smart step ahead.

 

 

Yandex short URL and Virus Detection.

Yandex short URL and Virus Detection

 

Last week, the short URL service Yandex Clck.ru, started using services Yandex SafeSearch, to protect users from viruses and trojans.

Clck.ru now considers, that the website and URL link may eventually change their status from normal to infected and vice versa. Therefore, for a complete reference for the website, Clck.ru checked for the presence in the SafeSearch database. If the site was infected, then Clck.ru shows the user a warning. The base SafeSearch whit infected pages are constantly updated and renewed.

 

Yandex Short URL

 

As you see, Yandex Clck can generate QR codes. It is important to understant that these codes, after QR decoding, show url type http://clck.ru/ABC, (generated short code). So, this is not the QR generator for your main site URL.

In additional, we recomend this services, becouse Yandex has one of the best ativirus and trojan detections on the Internet. Last month’s, some of ours ex clients sites were infected. The first notifications, we were received from the Yandex webmasters control panel.

After checking infected websites security in almost all the on line security services, we have found the troyan code, but it is interesting that most security services and software, said that the infected site is safe and secure.

We start to check all files manualy to find code. We found virus code in many .js files., and after removing viruses now everything is fine. As a result of infection, infected websites lost Yandex SERPs, which is normal in this situation. Do not underestimate these dangers and use clck.ru for quick checks for viruses and trojans.

 

Yandex Money now accepts foreign bank cards.

Yandex Money now accepts foreign bank cards.

 

Users from any country, other than Russia, can make payments to the sites of Russian companies or e-shops, through Yandex Money.

This is a fast and secure way to make payment in Russia. Of course, merchants, do not store any card details. It is not more different than Paypal. You can bind card of any bank, operating in Russia or abroad to your personal Yandex Money account.

Currently this offer it is not available to users with bank cards issued in United States, and Canada.

 

Yandex Money Cards

 

Users from other countries will be able to pay for all connected to Yandex Money stores, for example, Russian goods – books, music, movies. In addition, Yandex Money users can pay for digital goods and virtual services: watching movies, online language courses, subscriptions to electronic libraries and Russian editions, features social networks, and more.

Yandex Money does not charge any commission on payments that you make.

Unfortunately, at the moment the Yandex money interface is only in Russian. Probably, at the firs look, Yandex trying to reach their target audience – Russians abroad. But, this is only part of the process. They will not stop here!

 

Yandex announced a new mobile application

Yandex announced a new mobile application

 

Today we have updated the application Yandex Market for bada platform. Yandex Market app for bada – is a totally new application that provides everything you need to decide for the product and the place of purchase, Yandex team member said.

 

Market for bada allows you to learn about the main characteristics of the goods, to compare prices at different stores and read customer reviews. It is enough to take a picture of a barcode or enter the first letters of the goods in the search bar – some useful tips will help you quickly jump to any model.

Yandex.Market App

Directly from the application, users can call to store, or go to the website to order online, which is especially useful for emergency purchases – such as a birthday gift to a friend or colleague.

Yandex.Market App bada

Yandex Market for users of Samsung Wave 525, 533, 575, 578, 723 is already available in the Samsung App Store. For other users of the platform, bada application will be in store for the next two days.

Yandex Market is a web based system for search and selection of different products.

Samsung bada is a smartphone platform, which is created for a wide range of device. ”Bada” is a Korean word that means “ocean” and “seashore“.

Russian iPad users and their search behavior

Russian iPad users and their search behavior.

 

Number of users

According to Yandex Metrika, at the end of January 2012, at least a million iPad users, visits different RuNet (Russian websites). More than 700 thousand of them were from Russia.
Official iPad sales in Russia began in November 2010. At this point, in the Russia already had a few tens of thousands of Apple tablet computers. In early 2011, their number exceeded a hundred thousand, and for the year increased by six times. Number of users who visit websites with Desctops PC, mobile phones, during this period also increased, but only 1.5-2.5 times, against visits from iPod, whit record growth of 5.8 times.
 
User activities

The Behavior of iPad users looks identical to those which visit RuNet sites by Desctops PC. It is clear that, for users, whit iPad is much easier to visit websites, than mobile phones users.

With iPad, users visit sites almost as much as users with Desctops PC.
 
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Website visits per week via mobile phone, iPad, and PC – According to Yandex Metrika
 

Usually Russians, uses their tablets at home, in the evening. This can be seen on the distribution of search queries. On weekends, 60% of the queries given to Yandex comes from Desctop computers, and only 37% – in the evening. For the iPad search, queries, ratio is reversed – 57% of all queries per day, comes in the evening, and only 40% during in the business hours.
 
Search interests

Compared to the average user, Yandex iPad users make much more queries, about anything related to tourism, travel and home. They are more likely to choose goods and services.

 

Yandex, Enhances News Content in Search Results

Yandex, Enhances News Content in Search Results

Yandex has made some changes in a search algorithm, and try to make easier for users to find the latest news on the main search results pages. In response to queries about the actual events, Yandex returns a group of links to the most recent web resources, including the links shared on Twitter.

According to Yandex, search queries about the latest news and events, comprising 3% to 10% of all searches. Yandex uses its real-time robot, Orange, designed for indexing regularly updated resources, to return results to news queries.

By using this new ranking algorithm, Yandex ranks all of the most recently actual results by relevance levels to show those that are most basically related to the user queries. Users can find all results about the story or event in last three days.

yandex news Orange

The social networking communities and especially microblogging become one of the most significant news resources on the Internet.

Now, Yandex users can see most authentic and relevant results from Twitter, among the most recent web sources in Yandex’s search results. Today, users can find more results relevant to their search query. Yandex’s Twitter search technology is powered by Topsy Labs (topsy.com).

Yandex will Launch Own Cloud Storage

Yandex will Launch Own Cloud Storage

 

“Yandex” will launch free service for cloud storage soon, Vedomosti newspaper noticed. The service will synchronize to the “cloud” information from the user’s computers and mobile phones. Probably this will is the Russian response to Apple iCloud service.

Each user will be get up to 10 GB. Yandex now thinking about how to limit the numbers of downloads per file.

Today cloud storage services have been part of daily life for millions of users around the word. Yandex will be focuses in iCloud model, said a source from “Yandex”, according to Vedomosti.

“Yandex” will increase the disk space, for free. The aim of the project was to attract more users, and earn from advertising.

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In Russia, there are many popular services for file storage – Dropbox, Files.Mail.ru, Ifolder, remind Konstantin Anisimov, Director of Marketing at Parallels. In such a competitive situation, the model iCloud - can be an excellent way, for optimizing the customers experience, and increase customers loyalty. Obviously, “Yandex” will continue to monetize their standard business model, due to improving search quality and contextual advertising, said Anisimov.