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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
}}[[wikipedia:Yandex|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 become the number one used search engine in the Russian Federation<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 2024 |title=Search Engine Market Share Russian Federation |url=https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/russian-federation |url-status=live |access-date=16 Aug 2025 |website=Statcounter}}</ref> and started having subsidiary companies in many different industries including: [https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex_Cloud cloud computing], [[wikipedia:Yandex_Maps|web mapping]], [[wikipedia:Yandex_Eda|online food ordering]], [[wikipedia:Kinopoisk|streaming media]], [[wikipedia:Yandex_Market|online shopping]], a [[wikipedia:Yandex_Taxi|ridesharing company]], [[wikipedia:Yandex_Music|Music]], and not so long ago started making it's own [https://yandex.ru/support/yandex-factory/commo/ru/ electronic devices]
|Website=https://yandex.com/
}}
 
'''{{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==
==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 Freedom====
'''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>
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 why they wish to delete their profile.
<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>


====User Privacy====
'''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.
As of 19 May 2022, the Yandex [https://yandex.com/legal/confidential/ privacy policy] states that they will collect: Your name, mobile phone number, address and age; http headers, IP address, cookies, web beacons/pixel tags, browser information, information about your hardware and software, 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, likes and preferences, email addresses of your email contacts, phonebook data, information about interactions with other users, as well as files and content stored in Yandex systems; (geo)location information; and payment card information.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 May 2022 |title=Yandex Legal documents |url=https://yandex.com/legal/confidential/ |url-status=live |access-date=16 Aug 2025 |website=Yandex}}</ref>


====Business Model====
'''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}}
The business model of Yandex is maintaining its customer relationships through continuous innovation, customer support services, and personalized user experiences. Also Yandex is investing in it's own AI.
 
====Market Control====
Yandex is the leading search engine in the Russian Federation, and is actively trying to get even more subsidiary companies to control more of the Russian market.


==Incidents==
==Incidents==
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!Contoversy
!Controversy
!Year
!Year
!Background Info
!Background Info
!Aftermath
!Aftermath
!Related Article
!Related Article
!Related Video (s)
!Related Video(s)
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|Yandex being bundled with sketchy software, and paying bootleg Windows copy makers to include their browser as the default application upon install.
|Yandex being bundled with sketchy software, and paying bootleg Windows copy makers to include their browser as the default application upon install.
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|No consequences
|No consequences
|[https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/detections/pup-optional-yandex PUP.Optional.Yandex]
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20251030210334/https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/detections/pup-optional-yandex PUP.Optional.Yandex]
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MzkwNa-g-0 '''Как я обхитрил Яндекс и всех сборщиков Windows''']
|[https://www.preservetube.com/watch?v=_MzkwNa-g-0 '''Как я обхитрил Яндекс и всех сборщиков Windows''']
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|Yandex makes all searches about [[wikipedia:Alexei_Navalny|Navalny]] give only negative results
|Yandex makes all searches about {{Wplink|Alexei Navalny}} return only negative results.
|27 April 2020 - 28 April 2020
|27 April 2020 - 28 April 2020
|Navalny was the main oppositioner of the Russian Goverment. They tried to paint him in a bad light through the search results.
|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".
|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]
|[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]
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|Yandex was accused of advertising potentially unsafe results, including fake versions of well-known programs and websites.
|Yandex was accused of advertising potentially unsafe results, including fake versions of well-known programs and websites.
|3 September 2024
|3 September 2024
|Yandex has promoted fake results for Skype, Anydesk, and other software, that was bundled with malware.
|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)
|Yandex was taken to court, and was forced to pay ₽10,000 (~$125)
|[https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4443619 «Яндекс» наказали за рекламу контрафакта]
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20251029153259/https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4443619 «Яндекс» наказали за рекламу контрафакта]
[https://habr.com/ru/articles/489254/ Яндекс помогает распространять вредоносное ПО?]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20240903201738/https://habr.com/ru/articles/489254/ Яндекс помогает распространять вредоносное ПО?]
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|In January 2023, Yandex had a massive source code leak, containing around 45 gigabytes of data.
|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.
|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://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/20230810113047/https://www.wired.com/story/yandex-leaks-crypta-ads/ Leaked Yandex Code Breaks Open the Creepy Black Box of Online Advertising]
[https://ir.yandex/press-releases?year=2023&id=2023-01-31 Yandex comments on cybersecurity incident]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20230327231606/https://ir.yandex/press-releases?year=2023&id=2023-01-31 Yandex comments on cybersecurity incident]
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|Yandex was spying on its Android users using [[wikipedia:Yandex.Metrica|Yandex Metrica]]
|Yandex was spying on its Android users using {{Wplink|Yandex.Metrica|Yandex Metrica}}
|June 2025
|June 2025
|Yandex Metrica was sending unique identificators of it's users since 2017, from browsers into Yandex apps, which let them to link the websites the user visited to a specific user account in the Yandex ecosystem.
|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 was known, google started an investigation, which made yandex to stop collecting data.
|After the incident became known, Google began an investigation which led to Yandex to stopping the practice.{{Citation needed}}
|[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]
|[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]
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|Covert web-to-app tracking
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|[[Covert web-to-app tracking by Meta and Yandex]]
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==Products==
==Products==
 
*Yandex Search
====Products====
*Yandex Taxi
 
*Yandex Maps
===[[wikipedia:Yandex_Search|Yandex Search]] -  23 sept 1997 - present===
*Yandex Metrica
Used to censor searches to favor a political party and promote sketchy software
*Yandex Music
 
*Yandex Eda
===[[wikipedia:Yandex_Taxi|Yandex Taxi]] - 26 oct 2011 - present===
*Yandex Cloud
 
*Yandex Market
===[[wikipedia:Yandex_Maps\|Yandex Maps]] - 27 aug 2004 - present===
*Yandex Disk
 
*Yandex Mail
===[[wikipedia:Yandex.Metrica|Yandex Metrica]] - 2008 - present===
*Dzen News
Used to steal data from Android users
*Yandex Translate
 
*Yandex Alice
===[[wikipedia:Yandex_Music|Yandex Music]] - 22 Sept 2010 - present===
 
===[[wikipedia:Yandex_Eda|Yandex Eda]] - Jan 2018 - present===
 
===[[wikipedia:Yandex_Cloud|Yandex Cloud]] - Oct 2020 - present===
 
===[[wikipedia:Yandex_Market|Yandex Market]] - 30 Nov 2000 - present===
 
===[https://yandex.ru/support/yandex-factory/commo/ru/ Commo] - 28 Mar 2022 - present===
 
===[[wikipedia:Yandex_Disk|Yandex Disk]] - Apr 2012 - present===
 
===[[wikipedia:Yandex_Mail|Yandex Mail]] - June 2000 - present===
 
===[[wikipedia:Dzen_News|Dzen News]] - 21 June 2000 - present===
 
===[[wikipedia:Yandex_Translate|Yandex Translate]] - 22 Mar 2011 - present===
 
===[[wikipedia:Alice_(virtual_assistant)|Yandex Alice]] - 10 oct 2017 - present===
Used to profile users to sell them more personalised things.


==See also==
==See also==
*[[Google]]
*[[Google]]
*[[Bing]]
*[[Bing]]
*[[DuckDuckGo Browser|DuckDuckGo]]
*[[DuckDuckGo]]
 
==References==
==References==
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