Rambler is often criticized for their lack of development. Google has set the pace and Yandex has more than caught up, released a wide range of applications and services. So it’s good to see some developments at Rambler, which currently holds no.2 position by Russian IP. Change has come in the form of a new [...]

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I’ve just about caught up from the C-IB 2008 ‘Internet and Business’ Conference last week. This is now the largest conference in Russia with 3500 people registering this year (up by 1500 on 2007). Take note SES and SMX, this scene is developing quickly and people are hungry for conferences. Admittedly the popularity of CIB [...]

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On the 11-12th of November 2008 will be the 7th Annual Conference by Ashmanov and Partners; “Search Engine Optimization and promotion of sites on the Internet”. Catchy title eh? Last year 1100 people attended, including representatives from all the search engines in Russia (Yandex, Rambler, Mail.ru, Google). There is also an expo hall, where 26 [...]

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Rambler is the second most popular search engine for Russian users with roughly 22% market share. One of their more popular tools is the Rambler Top 100 List, which shows the most popular sites in Runet. All you have to do to be included in this directory is to make use of their free online [...]

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ICANN is still attempting to delete the obsolete SU (Soviet Union) extension but having little success. While they have managed to decommission the .YU (Yogoslavia) extension successfully last year, they are finding rebellion among Russian webmasters, ISPs and the Registry itself. To summerise the dispute so far, September saw ICANN release a statement urging “the [...]

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Yandex has announced a new vertical search engine for car sales in Russian, found at: http://auto.yandex.ru/. . They are collecting adverts from all leading Runet car sites and aggregating them within the one search. The information and pictures are updated several times per day and the system can present results closest to the user’s location. [...]

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Yandex has announced a partnership with the Russian Development Bank (RBR) to expand their online payment system. Now payments to and from Yandex Money can be made from any of the ATMs belonging to the bank. As usual payments onto the system are free but withdrawals attract a 2% commission. Web Money is still the [...]

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Statistics released by the search engine Yandex indicates that it is women not met who are building the blogosphere in Russia. The average blogger in the country is female and 22 year old. This group has also matured over the six months, the previous average age being 21. Female bloggers are more likely to keep [...]

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