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}}[[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]

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 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.

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.

|Yandex being bundled with sketchy software, and paying bootleg windows copy makers to include their browser as the starting one

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

|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"

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

|3 sept 2024

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

|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

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

|Jun. 2025

Was used to censor searches to favor a political party and promote sketchy software

Was used to steal data from android users

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