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:

Download, uploud and activate plugin trought WP admin section.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

The leading russian company “Ashmanov and partners” has published an analytical report for search engines based on data from project AnalyzeThis.

According to ComScore, in autumn 2011, Russia became the first country in Europe, according by size of the Internet audience. Thanks to the rapidly increasing of Internet users in Russia, more and more companies are considering Internet as a channel of advertising and direct sales.

In 2011, for Russian companies, expenditures grow in online advertising, and accounted for 14% of advertising budgets, more than spending on outdoor advertising and exceeding spending on advertising in print media (11%). The amount of e-commerce market in Russia in 2011, according to various estimates range from 350 to 370 billion rubles.

Figure 3: Search results, availability of original sources of information.

In the corresponding graph, (Figure 3), high positions held by those search engines, which, achieved more correct tracking of the originals. We have to admit that the quality of treatment of this crucial parameter looks unsatisfactorily in all search engines.

Search engines are still imperfect, and they have difficulties to “understand” where is the original text. In results, websites with spined articles or copies have a significantly higher position, than the website of the original.

In RuNet, Yandex had relative leadership in deter of the originals, until the end of the year. However, Yandex share in deter the original context does not exceed 50 percent.

Almost all the other search engines for this indicator, unfortunately, and did show a negative trend in the field to recognise originals.

Exception – Google, has consistently improved the quality of the search results by this parameter. (Already in early 2012, Google has overtaken “Yandex”, bringing the search quality originals up to 60%.)
Google is leading for speed of indexing (almost 90% of new pages are indexed during the month). Yandex is the second place, but this figure is constantly improving.

The Russian (PPC) Internet advertising platform “Begun” (Begun.ru), announced for new an analytical study of the Russian and Ukrainian contextual advertising markets for 2011.

The survey included a description of the most actual and promising promotional products (geo context ads, mobile advertising, “Begun TV” and others). The Review based on data from the “Begun” analytical center, and the media research companies.

According to Begun, size of the Russian advertising market in 2011 amounted to 263.4 billion rubles without VAT (evaluation of the Association of Communication Agencies of Russia). This is almost 21% more than the previous year. The advertising market for the first time exceeded pre-crisis rates in 2008 (4%).

According to the Association of Communication Agencies of Russia, the Internet advertising also showed impressive growth. The Internet advertising in Russia jumped from fourth to second place among the ads segments.

The volume of Internet advertising market in 2011 – 41.8 billion rubles (56% more than in 2010). Of these, for media advertising 15.3 billion rubles (growth – 45%), the context advertising – 26.5 billion rubles (growth – 63%).

The main tendency of the previous year – expanding the arsenal of technical content. Begun.ru, Google, and Yandex have proposed new advertising formats in the video, mobile websites, mobile applications, geo-location services. These PPC platforms now offer more precise geo targeting.
Social networks began to play a crucial role In the market of targeted advertising. Facebook and VKontakte (VK) develop their own advertising systems; advertisers are learning how to take into account the specifics of user behavior and communication in social networks to more effectively promote their businesses.

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.

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 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“.

Today VK launched a competition to develop applications for instant messaging for the iPhone based on the existing API VKontakte social network. This was reported in a group of developers VKontakte.

The prize fund is five million rubles (around 169000,00 USD). The amount will be distributed among the best applications published in the App Store. Applications for participation in the competition are accepted from tomorrow to April 20 inclusive (21.00).

Before the end, of the reception of works application must be sent to the App Store as a free application to all the participants were able to assess each other’s work. The application should be easy for use, even for users not familiar with VKontakte (VK.com). Rights will be reserved to the application developer.

Conditions of competition – to develop the messenger for the iPhone.

Terms

Starting date for applying March 9, 2012. Closing date for papers: April 20, 2012 (21:00).

Your task is to

App should be in the language Objective C using the API to implement VKontakte application to the extent described in the job. An additional requirement for the job is the presence of Russian and English versions of the interface. The application must be compatible with all iOS-devices with firmware version 4.0 and above.

For ease of development, VK has prepared all the necessary API methods.

The competition involved the inhabitants of any country, not just Russia.

All participants are encouraged to join the team competition for current information and participate in discussions.

VK is one of the largest social network with more than a 100 million active users.