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History. Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich were friends from their school days in Kazakhstan in the 1980s. Volozh started developing algorithms to search in Russian texts and contacted Segalovich in 1990. [11] They worked together to develop search software, [12] with the company name Arcadia.
The word ‘Yandex’. Ilya Segalovich and Arkady Volozh thought up the word “Yandex”. Arcadia had launched a new version of a search program and they wanted to give it an original name. Ilya sat down with a sheet of paper and wrote down words that described the essence of the program, brainstorming around the words “search” and ...
Key dates and milestones from our beginning in 1997 until the present day.
The company Yandex. The company “Yandex” was registered. Its founders were the shareholders of CompTek. The ru-Net Holdings fund invested more than $5 million into the company, giving it an almost 36% stake. Other shareholders included managers and leading developers of the search engine.
Ilya Valentinovich Segalovich (13 September 1964 – 27 July 2013 [2][3][4]) was a co-founder of Russian company Yandex. He was CTO and director of Yandex since 2000 until his death in 2013. Segalovich proposed the name “Yandex” for the search engine, derived from the idea of “Yet Another iNDEX”. [5]
Volozh co-founded several IT enterprises, including CompTek, Arkadia, InfiNet and Yandex. Yandex is one of Europe's largest Internet companies, operating Russia's most popular search engine. Yandex is listed in NASDAQ, and was traded at over 30 billion dollars in November 2021.
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Aug 22, 2019 · Yandex was founded in 1997 by Arkady Volozh (current CEO), Arkady Borkovsky and Ilya Segalovich. The name is derived from the phrase “Yet Another iNDEXer.” The company had an IPO in 2011 and is now publically traded on the NASDAQ in the US, with the ticker symbol YNDX .
