Yandex

yandex is one of the largest internet companies in europe, operating russia’s most popular search engine and one of its most visited websites. we generated almost 60% of russia’s search traffic in q4 2014 (liveinternet), while our sites attracted over 62 million unique visitors in december 2014 (tns). yandex creates services for people, with both a deep understanding of their interests and profound knowledge of their reality. all of our products and services are created with the mission to make people’s lives easier and better and provide them with the tools to discover new possibilities in their lives. practically all of yandex’s services use machine learning – including in the ranking of search results, serving online advertisements, and performing translations. in 2009 we developed and implemented our own machine learning method – matrixnet. thanks to our speech recognition technology, users can communicate verbally with the yandex.navigator street navigation app instead of typi