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{{~~InfoboxCompany~~

{{CompanyCargo

| ~~Name~~ = ~~Yandex LLC~~

|Description=Russian computing company providing internet search, mapping services, online shopping and more.

~~| Type = Private~~

|Founded=1997

| Founded = 1997

|Industry=Computing, Technology

| Industry = Technology~~, Internet based services~~

|Logo=Yandex logo.png

| ~~Official~~ Website = https://yandex.com/

|ParentCompany=

~~| Logo = Yandex logo.png~~

|Type=Private

}}Yandex is a Russian technology conglomerate that provides internet-related services such as [[wikipedia:Yandex_Search|Yandex Search]], [[wikipedia:Yandex_Taxi|Yandex Taxi]] and [[wikipedia:Yandex_Maps\|Yandex Maps]] It was founded in 1997 by [[wikipedia:Arkady_Volozh|Arkady Volozh]] and [[wikipedia:Ilya_Segalovich|Ilya Segalovich]] as a search engine and over the years developed to ... in many different industries including

|Website=https://yandex.com/

}}

==Consumer ~~rights~~ summary==

'''{{Wplink|Yandex}}''' is a Russian technology conglomerate that provides internet-related services such as {{Wplink|Yandex Search}}, {{Wplink|Yandex Taxi}} and {{Wplink|Yandex Maps}}. It was founded in 1997 by {{Wplink|Arkady Volozh}} and {{Wplink|Ilya Segalovich}} as a search engine and over the years developed to become the number one used search engine in the Russian Federation<ref>{{Cite web |author= |title=Search Engine Market Share Russian Federation |url=https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/russian-federation |website=Statcounter

|date=July 2024 |access-date=16 Aug 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724104835/https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/russian-federation |archive-date=24 Jul 2024}}</ref> and started having subsidiary companies in many different industries including: {{Wplink|Yandex Cloud|cloud computing}}, {{Wplink|Yandex Maps|web mapping}}, {{Wplink|Yandex Eda|online food ordering}}, {{Wplink|Kinopoisk|streaming media}}, {{Wplink|Yandex Market|online shopping}}, a {{Wplink|Yandex Taxi|ride-sharing company}}, {{Wplink|Yandex Music|music}}, and not so long ago started making its own [https://yandex.ru/support/yandex-factory/commo/ru/ electronic devices]

==Consumer impact summary==

'''User freedom:''' The user can freely create an account and delete it, but when the user tries to delete an account, it tries to keep them from deleting it by asking questions like why they wish to delete their profile.

'''User privacy:''' As of 19 May 2022, the Yandex privacy policy states that they collect:<ref>{{Cite web |author= |title=Yandex Legal documents |url=https://yandex.com/legal/confidential/ |website=Yandex |date= |access-date=16 Aug 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250820035103/https://yandex.com/legal/confidential/ |archive-date=20 Aug 2025}}</ref>

*Your name

*Mobile phone number

*Address

*Age

*HTTP headers

*IP address

*[[Web cookie|Cookies]]

*Web beacons/pixel tags

</td>

*Web browser information

*Hardware and software information

*Wi-Fi network data

*Date and time of accessing the sites or services

*Your search history

*Data on purchases in the services

*Data on visited organizations

</td>

*Your likes and preferences

*E-mail addresses of your e-mail contacts

*Phone book data

*Information about interactions with other users

*Files and content stored in Yandex systems

*Geo-location information

*Payment card information

</td>

</tr>

</table>

'''Business model:''' The business model of Yandex is maintaining its customer relationships through continuous innovation, customer support services, and personalized user experiences. Yandex is also investing in its own AI.

'''Market control:''' Yandex is the leading search engine in the Russian Federation, and is actively pursuing even more subsidiary companies to control more of the Russian market.{{Citation needed}}

==Incidents==

===Yandex and ~~Meta bypassing Android security~~ ('~~' Jun~~. 2025~~'')~~===

{| class="wikitable"

|+

!Controversy

!Year

!Background Info

!Aftermath

!Related Article

!Related Video(s)

|-

|Yandex being bundled with sketchy software, and paying bootleg Windows copy makers to include their browser as the default application upon install.

|unknown - present

!

|No consequences

|[https://web.archive.org/web/20251030210334/https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/detections/pup-optional-yandex PUP.Optional.Yandex]

|[https://www.preservetube.com/watch?v=_MzkwNa-g-0 '''Как я обхитрил Яндекс и всех сборщиков Windows''']

|-

|Yandex makes all searches about {{Wplink|Alexei Navalny}} return only negative results.

|27 April 2020 - 28 April 2020

|Navalny was the main opposer of the Russian Government. The company tried to paint him in a bad light through the search results.

|Yandex had to back down and say it was a "timed experiment".

|[https://web.archive.org/web/20200428080018/https://tjournal.ru/news/162614-yandeks-vsemi-svoimi-servisami-risuet-obraz-navalnogo «Яндекс» всеми своими сервисами рисует образ Навального]

|

|-

|Yandex was accused of advertising potentially unsafe results, including fake versions of well-known programs and websites.

|3 September 2024

|Yandex has promoted fake results for Skype, Anydesk, and other software, that was bundled with {{Wplink|malware}}.

|Yandex was taken to court, and was forced to pay ₽10,000 (~$125)

|[https://web.archive.org/web/20251029153259/https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4443619 «Яндекс» наказали за рекламу контрафакта]

[https://web.archive.org/web/20240903201738/https://habr.com/ru/articles/489254/ Яндекс помогает распространять вредоносное ПО?]

|

|-

|Yandex collects data about users' locations, travel speeds, and names of the Wi-Fi networks they connect to. Also, Yandex profiles users based on their search queries using Yandex "Alice".

|January 2023

|In January 2023, Yandex had a massive source code leak, containing around 45 gigabytes of data.

|In a press release about the data breach, Yandex said that user data was not affected, and apologized for its opaque recommendation system and "racial slurs" in some parts of its code.

|[https://web.archive.org/web/20230810113047/https://www.wired.com/story/yandex-leaks-crypta-ads/ Leaked Yandex Code Breaks Open the Creepy Black Box of Online Advertising]

[https://web.archive.org/web/20230327231606/https://ir.yandex/press-releases?year=2023&id=2023-01-31 Yandex comments on cybersecurity incident]

|

|-

|Yandex was spying on its Android users using {{Wplink|Yandex.Metrica|Yandex Metrica}}

|June 2025

|Since 2017, Yandex Metrica had been sending unique identifiers of its users from web browsers into Yandex apps, which let them to link the websites the user visited to a specific user account in the Yandex ecosystem.

|After the incident became known, Google began an investigation which led to Yandex to stopping the practice.{{Citation needed}}

|[https://web.archive.org/web/20250603141704/https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/ Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers]

|

|-

|Covert web-to-app tracking

|

|[[Covert web-to-app tracking by Meta and Yandex]]

|

|}

==Products==

*Yandex Search

*Yandex Taxi

*Yandex Maps

*Yandex Metrica

*Yandex Music

*Yandex Eda

*Yandex Cloud

*Yandex Market

*Yandex Disk

*Yandex Mail

*Dzen News

*Yandex Translate

*Yandex Alice

==See also==

*[[Google]]

*[[Bing]]

*[[DuckDuckGo]]

==References==

[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]

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-{{InfoboxCompany
+{{CompanyCargo
-| Name = Yandex LLC
+|Description=Russian computing company providing internet search, mapping services, online shopping and more.
-| Type = Private
+|Founded=1997
-| Founded = 1997
+|Industry=Computing, Technology
-| Industry = Technology, Internet based services
+|Logo=Yandex logo.png
-| Official Website = https://yandex.com/
+|ParentCompany=
-| Logo = Yandex logo.png
+|Type=Private
-}}Yandex  is a Russian technology conglomerate that provides internet-related services such as [[wikipedia:Yandex_Search|Yandex Search]], [[wikipedia:Yandex_Taxi|Yandex Taxi]] and [[wikipedia:Yandex_Maps\|Yandex Maps]] It was founded in 1997 by [[wikipedia:Arkady_Volozh|Arkady Volozh]] and [[wikipedia:Ilya_Segalovich|Ilya Segalovich]] as a search engine and over the years developed to ... in many different industries including
+|Website=https://yandex.com/
+}}
-==Consumer rights summary==
+'''{{Wplink|Yandex}}''' is a Russian technology conglomerate that provides internet-related services such as {{Wplink|Yandex Search}}, {{Wplink|Yandex Taxi}} and {{Wplink|Yandex Maps}}. It was founded in 1997 by {{Wplink|Arkady Volozh}} and {{Wplink|Ilya Segalovich}} as a search engine and over the years developed to become the number one used search engine in the Russian Federation<ref>{{Cite web |author= |title=Search Engine Market Share Russian Federation |url=https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/russian-federation |website=Statcounter
+|date=July 2024 |access-date=16 Aug 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724104835/https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/russian-federation |archive-date=24 Jul 2024}}</ref> and started having subsidiary companies in many different industries including: {{Wplink|Yandex Cloud|cloud computing}}, {{Wplink|Yandex Maps|web mapping}}, {{Wplink|Yandex Eda|online food ordering}}, {{Wplink|Kinopoisk|streaming media}}, {{Wplink|Yandex Market|online shopping}}, a {{Wplink|Yandex Taxi|ride-sharing company}}, {{Wplink|Yandex Music|music}}, and not so long ago started making its own [https://yandex.ru/support/yandex-factory/commo/ru/ electronic devices]
+==Consumer impact summary==
+'''User freedom:''' The user can freely create an account and delete it, but when the user tries to delete an account, it tries to keep them from deleting it by asking questions like why they wish to delete their profile.
+'''User privacy:''' As of 19 May 2022, the Yandex privacy policy states that they collect:<ref>{{Cite web |author= |title=Yandex Legal documents |url=https://yandex.com/legal/confidential/ |website=Yandex |date= |access-date=16 Aug 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250820035103/https://yandex.com/legal/confidential/ |archive-date=20 Aug 2025}}</ref>
+<table width="60%">
+ <tr><td width="25%">
+*Your name
+*Mobile phone number
+*Address
+*Age
+*HTTP headers
+*IP address
+*[[Web cookie|Cookies]]
+*Web beacons/pixel tags
+ </td>
+ <td width="40%">
+*Web browser information
+*Hardware and software information
+*Wi-Fi network data
+*Date and time of accessing the sites or services
+*Your search history
+*Data on purchases in the services
+*Data on visited organizations
+ </td>
+ <td width="45%">
+*Your likes and preferences
+*E-mail addresses of your e-mail contacts
+*Phone book data
+*Information about interactions with other users
+*Files and content stored in Yandex systems
+*Geo-location information
+*Payment card information
+ </td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+'''Business model:''' The business model of Yandex is maintaining its customer relationships through continuous innovation, customer support services, and personalized user experiences. Yandex is also investing in its own AI.
+'''Market control:''' Yandex is the leading search engine in the Russian Federation, and is actively pursuing even more subsidiary companies to control more of the Russian market.{{Citation needed}}
 ==Incidents==
-===Yandex and Meta bypassing Android security ('' Jun. 2025'')===
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+
+!Controversy
+!Year
+!Background Info
+!Aftermath
+!Related Article
+!Related Video(s)
+|-
+|Yandex being bundled with sketchy software, and paying bootleg Windows copy makers to include their browser as the default application upon install.
+|unknown - present
+!
+|No consequences
+|[https://web.archive.org/web/20251030210334/https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/detections/pup-optional-yandex PUP.Optional.Yandex]
+|[https://www.preservetube.com/watch?v=_MzkwNa-g-0 '''Как я обхитрил Яндекс и всех сборщиков Windows''']
+|-
+|Yandex makes all searches about {{Wplink|Alexei Navalny}} return only negative results.
+|27 April 2020 - 28 April 2020
+|Navalny was the main opposer of the Russian Government. The company tried to paint him in a bad light through the search results.
+|Yandex had to back down and say it was a "timed experiment".
+|[https://web.archive.org/web/20200428080018/https://tjournal.ru/news/162614-yandeks-vsemi-svoimi-servisami-risuet-obraz-navalnogo «Яндекс» всеми своими сервисами рисует образ Навального]
+|
+|-
+|Yandex was accused of advertising potentially unsafe results, including fake versions of well-known programs and websites.
+|3 September 2024
+|Yandex has promoted fake results for Skype, Anydesk, and other software, that was bundled with {{Wplink|malware}}.
+|Yandex was taken to court, and was forced to pay ₽10,000 (~$125)
+|[https://web.archive.org/web/20251029153259/https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4443619 «Яндекс» наказали за рекламу контрафакта]
+[https://web.archive.org/web/20240903201738/https://habr.com/ru/articles/489254/ Яндекс помогает распространять вредоносное ПО?]
+|
+|-
+|Yandex collects data about users' locations, travel speeds, and names of the Wi-Fi networks they connect to. Also, Yandex profiles users based on their search queries using Yandex "Alice".
+|January 2023
+|In January 2023, Yandex had a massive source code leak, containing around 45 gigabytes of data.
+|In a press release about the data breach, Yandex said that user data was not affected, and apologized for its opaque recommendation system and "racial slurs" in some parts of its code.
+|[https://web.archive.org/web/20230810113047/https://www.wired.com/story/yandex-leaks-crypta-ads/ Leaked Yandex Code Breaks Open the Creepy Black Box of Online Advertising]
+[https://web.archive.org/web/20230327231606/https://ir.yandex/press-releases?year=2023&id=2023-01-31 Yandex comments on cybersecurity incident]
+|
+|-
+|Yandex was spying on its Android users using {{Wplink|Yandex.Metrica|Yandex Metrica}}
+|June 2025
+|Since 2017, Yandex Metrica had been sending unique identifiers of its users from web browsers into Yandex apps, which let them to link the websites the user visited to a specific user account in the Yandex ecosystem.
+|After the incident became known, Google began an investigation which led to Yandex to stopping the practice.{{Citation needed}}
+|[https://web.archive.org/web/20250603141704/https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/ Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers]
+|
+|-
+|Covert web-to-app tracking
+|
+|
+|
+|[[Covert web-to-app tracking by Meta and Yandex]]
+|
+|}
+==Products==
+*Yandex Search
+*Yandex Taxi
+*Yandex Maps
+*Yandex Metrica
+*Yandex Music
+*Yandex Eda
+*Yandex Cloud
+*Yandex Market
+*Yandex Disk
+*Yandex Mail
+*Dzen News
+*Yandex Translate
+*Yandex Alice
 ==See also==
 *[[Google]]
 *[[Bing]]
+*[[DuckDuckGo]]
+==References==
+{{Reflist}}
 [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]