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Russian Internet giant Yandex uses Picsearch - The Russian search portal improves image search

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 28, 2008 - Yandex, the largest search portal in Russia, has selected Picsearch to enhance its search services. Working in close cooperation the two companies have given users of Yandex image search the possibility to search in all languages and among all images in the world. The cooperation started in December 2007.

Yandex is the largest search portal in Russia with a market share of 55% (LiveInternet.ru December 2007). Every day more than 8 million unique visitors enjoy Yandex's different search features: web search, image search, blog search, local search and much more. Over 900 000 unique visitors use image search every day. Yandex also offers additional services like blog hosting, e-mail and photo hosting, news feeds, free Web hosting, maps, encyclopedias, dictionaries, price comparison, online payment system, social networking, free hot spot network and many more.

Robert Risberg, Picsearch's CEO, said that "Yandex is the dominant Internet company in Russia and we view them as a very important partner in the fast growing Russian-speaking world. The Russian language is not only spoken by Russia's 140 million citizens but also by other regions, including Ukraine and the rest of the CIS. Having multilingual support and being able to customize our services for our partners' needs is something that Picsearch is proud of."

Picsearch indexes video, images and audio content from the whole world and is today one of the largest global providers of multimedia search services. Every month, several million new videos, images and audio files are added to the service. Picsearch has, since its inception, strived for relevancy and family friendliness. High relevancy helps the user to find the image they are looking for. Family friendliness allows children to surf in safety as offensive material is filtered out by advanced filtering systems. Picsearch is the only search service which blocks child pornography in cooperation with police authorities.


About Picsearch
Picsearch AB (publ) is a premium provider of multimedia search and web TV services. The web TV and other video sharing services are built to be flexible and used today in video communities, e-commerce portals, real estate market places, and for different video applications at news and corporate websites. Picsearch search services are market leading in relevancy and family friendliness. Picsearch powers numerous leading Internet sites as well as its own Internet properties. Picsearch was founded in 2000, is privately held and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information please visit about.picsearch.com.

About Yandex
Yandex is a leading Internet portal and search engine in Russia with approximately 8 million unique visitors per day. In addition to search, the company provides users with other specialized services including blog hosting, photo and email hosting, news aggregation service, maps, a comparison shopping system, an online payment system and social networking. Yandex also supports Yandex WiFi, the largest free hotspot network in Russia. To find out more about Yandex, please visit: http://company.yandex.com/.


For more information please contact:
Carl Särnstrand, Communications Manager at Picsearch
Tel: +46 73 204 14 79
E-mail:carl.sarnstrand@picsearch.com

Michael Ushakov, Head of Press Service
Tel: +7 495 739-70-00
E-mail: pr@yandex-team.ru

 

 

 

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