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

| Logo = Yandex logo.png

}}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

}}[[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 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]

==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 why they wish to delete their profile.

==== User Privacy ====

As of 19.05.2022, 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 mailing contacts, phonebook data, information about interaction with other users, as well as files and content stored in Yandex systems; (Geo)location information; Your payment cards information, and other payment information, Other information about you.<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>

==== Buisness Model ====

Buisness 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==

{~~{Ph~~-C-~~Inc}}~~

{| class="wikitable"

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

|+

!Contoversy

!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 starting one

|unknown - present

!

|As of right now, yandex didn't suffer any consequences

|[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''']

|-

|Yandex makes all searches about [[wikipedia:Alexei_Navalny|Navalny]] give only negative results

|27 april 2020 - 28 april 2020

|Navalny was the main oppositioner of the Russian Goverment. Via the search results they tried to paint him in a bad way.

|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 sept 2024

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

|Yandex was taken to court, and was forced to pay 10k rubles ( ≈ 125 dollars)

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

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

|

|-

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

|Jan 2023

|In january 2023 there was a massive leak of yandex source code, containing about 45 gigabytes in compressed view

|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://ir.yandex/press-releases?year=2023&id=2023-01-31 Yandex comments on cybersecurity incident]

|

|-

|Yandex was spying on its android users using [[wikipedia:Yandex.Metrica|Yandex Metrica]]

|Jun. 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.

|After the incident was known, google started an investigation, which made yandex to stop collecting data.

|[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 identifiersidentifiers/]

|

|}

==Products==

~~{{Ph~~-C-~~P}}~~

==== Products ====

=== [[wikipedia:Yandex_Search|Yandex Search]] - 23 sept 1997 - present ===

Was used to censor searches to favor a political party.

=== [[wikipedia:Yandex_Taxi|Yandex Taxi]] - 26 oct 2011 - present ===

=== [[wikipedia:Yandex_Maps\|Yandex Maps]] - 27 aug 2004 - present ===

=== [[wikipedia:Yandex.Metrica|Yandex Metrica]] - 2008 - present ===

Was used to steal data from android users

=== [[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 ===

Was used to profile users to sell them more personalised things.

==See also==

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 | Official Website = https://yandex.com/
 | Logo = Yandex logo.png
-}}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
+}}[[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 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]
 ==Consumer impact summary==
-{{Ph-C-CIS}}
+==== 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 why they wish to delete their profile.
+==== User Privacy ====
+As of 19.05.2022, 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 mailing contacts, phonebook data, information about interaction with other users, as well as files and content stored in Yandex systems; (Geo)location information; Your payment cards information, and other payment information, Other information about you.<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>
+==== Buisness Model ====
+Buisness 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==
-{{Ph-C-Inc}}
+{| class="wikitable"
-===Yandex and Meta bypassing Android security ('' Jun. 2025'')===
+|+
+!Contoversy
+!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 starting one
+|unknown - present
+!
+|As of right now, yandex didn't suffer any consequences
+|[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''']
+|-
+|Yandex makes all searches about [[wikipedia:Alexei_Navalny|Navalny]] give only negative results
+|27 april 2020 - 28 april 2020
+|Navalny was the main oppositioner of the Russian Goverment. Via the search results they tried to paint him in a bad way.
+|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 sept 2024
+|Yandex has promoted fake results for Skype, Anydesk, and other software, that was bundled with malware.
+|Yandex was taken to court, and was forced to pay 10k rubles  ( ≈ 125 dollars)
+|[https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4443619 «Яндекс» наказали за рекламу контрафакта]
+[https://habr.com/ru/articles/489254/ Яндекс помогает распространять вредоносное ПО?]
+|
+|-
+|Yandex collects data about users' locations, their travel speeds, and the names of the Wi-Fi networks they connect to. also profiles users based on their search queries using Yandex "Alice"
+|Jan 2023
+|In january 2023 there was a massive leak of yandex source code, containing about 45 gigabytes in compressed view
+|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://ir.yandex/press-releases?year=2023&id=2023-01-31 Yandex comments on cybersecurity incident]
+|
+|-
+|Yandex was spying on its android users using [[wikipedia:Yandex.Metrica|Yandex Metrica]]
+|Jun. 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.
+|After the incident was known, google started an investigation, which made yandex to stop collecting data.
+|[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 identifiersidentifiers/]
+|
+|}
 ==Products==
-{{Ph-C-P}}
+==== Products ====
+=== [[wikipedia:Yandex_Search|Yandex Search]] -  23 sept 1997 - present ===
+Was used to censor searches to favor a political party.
+=== [[wikipedia:Yandex_Taxi|Yandex Taxi]] - 26 oct 2011 - present ===
+=== [[wikipedia:Yandex_Maps\|Yandex Maps]] - 27 aug 2004 - present ===
+=== [[wikipedia:Yandex.Metrica|Yandex Metrica]] - 2008 - present ===
+Was used to steal data from android users
+=== [[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 ===
+Was used to profile users to sell them more personalised things.
 ==See also==