Experts are unsurprised by Yandex's appearance among the Top 10 world Internet search engines.
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Yandex Joins Search Engine Top 10
The ComScore research agency issued a ranking of the world's top Internet search engines yesterday. Russia's Yandex has been ranked in the Top 10 search engines for the first time. According to ComScore, Yandex received 566 million hits in December of last year, accounting for 0.9 percent of the world total of 66,221,000,000. Yandex itself counted 587 million users for December, but head of the Yandex press service Mikhail Ushakov said that the company was satisfied with the ComScore findings. “Fiver percent is not a big margin of error,” he commented. Google, with 41 billion users in that period, cornered 62.4 percent of the market and ranked on top.
“Russia is one of the few countries where local players maintain leadership on the Internet market and they aren't about to give way to world brands,” commented Anna Artamonova, marketing and PR director of mail.ru. Independent observers say that Yandex provides services to 55 percent of the 11.8 million Russians who use the Internet every week. The number of users in Russia may rise to 21 million per day, according to the forecast of the MForum agency. There were press reports last summer that Yandex is preparing an IPO on the NASDAQ stock exchange. The company is estimated to be worth $3 billion.
The top Internet search engines are as follows
| 1 | Google sites | 62.4% | | 2 | Yahoo sites | 12.8% | | 3 | Baidu.com Inc. | 5.2% | | 4 | Microsoft sites | 2.9% | | 5 | NHN Corp. | 2.4% | | 6 | eBay | 2.2% | | 7 | Time Warner Network | 1.6% | | 8 | Ask Network | 1.1% | | 9 | Yandex | 0.9% | | 10 | Alibaba.com Corp. | 0.8% |
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All the Article in Russian as of Jan. 25, 2008
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