Yandex Rolls Out Social Recommendation Tool “Wonder”

The Russian search giant “Yandex” has launched its first product for the US market: a voice-controlled social search app called “Wonder”. “Wonder” is available on iOS. And this app pulls data from Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram and Twitter accounts of the users to answer questions like “What places my friends had visited nearby ?” It can be considered as mobile version of Facebook’s new Graph Search. – If you are…
Read more...Topsy Labs Powers Real-Time Search for Yandex

Topsy Labs, the leading real-time search and analytics provider, today announced that Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia, has licensed access to Topsy’s real-time relevance-ranked social media index to enable the integration of social search within Yandex’s search results. Topsy CTO & Co-founder, Vipul Ved Prakash says “We are very excited to partner with Yandex. Our technology platform is designed specifically to ingest and rank real-time social data at…
Read more...Russian Search Engine Yandex Announces Partnership with Twitter

Russian Search Engine Yandex announced today a partnership agreement with Twitter In.It will allow its users to search the microblogging site in real-time. Yandex search for Twitter, just like any other Yandex search engine, is word-form sensitive and corrects typos. The system’s users can search by username or by hashtag. Among the Russian web users Yandex leads Google in search engine usage. “With more than 250 million tweets a day,…
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