Yandex
- Country: Russia
- Type: Search
- Website: www.yandex.ru
- Update: 05-02
Yandex, Russia's number one search engine, was created in 1997 and has evolved into a portal offering search, image sharing, social networking, online payments, free web hosting, and other services.Yandex's technology originated from a logistical project at the Russian Academy of Sciences aimed at building a search system for the Soviet government, and the search engine masters a large amount of complex Russian language syntax. Grammar. Google lags behind Yandex in the Russian Internet search market.