January 2009
Firefox Drops Google For Yandex In Russia, But Big Loser May Be Rambler
by kuroyagi
"after months of research and surveys, Mozilla learned that their “Russian users really wanted direct access to the Yandex search.” So in the next build of Firefox, the default search provider will be Yandex for Russian users."
June 2008
Yandex to Open Labs Office in Bay Area [SearchEngineWatch]
by kuroyagi
"Russia's most popular search engine has officially announced plans to open a labs office in Silicon Valley. This news began to leak last week with the departure of Yahoo SVP and General Manager of Search, Vishal Makhijani. Makhijani will be President of Yandex Labs in the Bay Area, and will report directly to the CEO of Yandex."
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