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Yandex Search is couple of years older than Google, and specializes in Russian market from the beginning. It provided much more relevant results for quite a few

by cabirum 12y ago

Yandex Search is couple of years older than Google, and specializes in Russian market from the beginning. It provided much more relevant results for quite a few years. Some services mirror Google's while being tailored to Russia/CIS audience: mail, yandex.direct=adwords, chrome-based yandex browser, maps, news, social stuff, cloud storage. Some services, like yandex market or rabota (job search), have no Google counterparts. Also, their support is more responsive. So no, it's nothing like Baidu and more like Intel vs AMD.

listic 12y ago
Yandex.Market kinda corresponds to Google Shopping. http://www.google.com/shopping http://www.google.com/shopping Curiously enough, Google doesn't provide Shopping in Russia: there's no 'Shopping' tab when searching through google.ru, and when browsing via Russian IP, google.com does redirect through google.ru. While we are on AdWords/Yandex.Direct, is there any alternative to Wordstat from Google? http://wordstat.yandex.com/#!/?words=iPhone http://wordstat.yandex.com/#!/?words=iPhone
- cabirum 12y ago
  You can switch by clicking a link at the bottom, "Use Google.com". As for shopping, interestingly, it works here: "Online stores shipping to Moscow, Russia", but it's quite simplistic. Yandex.Market is more like Amazon if you look at its parametric search and filters.
  - listic 12y ago
    I can switch, but for that I need to go explicitly to goole.com (it redirects to .ru), click "Use Google.com" and search. As opposed to searching right from the browser address bar. Shopping works if you use google.com, but if you use google.ru - it isn't there.
- sam_lowry_ 12y ago
  Yandex.Market has a great API that lets shops integrate with it. Some shops even manage to exist without having their own websites. They just sell through Yandex.Market. Google Shopping does not even come close.
- mkr-hn 12y ago
  Going by the description, Wordstat seems similar to Google Trends. And AdWords has several keyword research tools.
- raquo 12y ago
  Yandex market is awesome. It has a very detailed database of products, and lets you filter them by tons of tech specs and actually explains what they are. I use it all the time to find products in categories that I don't know much about. Amazon, Google shopping or whatever don't even come close.

by cabirum 12y ago

listic 12y ago

Yandex.Market kinda corresponds to Google Shopping. http://www.google.com/shopping http://www.google.com/shopping Curiously enough, Google doesn't provide Shopping in Russia: there's no 'Shopping' tab when searching through google.ru, and when browsing via Russian IP, google.com does redirect through google.ru. While we are on AdWords/Yandex.Direct, is there any alternative to Wordstat from Google? http://wordstat.yandex.com/#!/?words=iPhone http://wordstat.yandex.com/#!/?words=iPhone

cabirum 12y ago
You can switch by clicking a link at the bottom, "Use Google.com". As for shopping, interestingly, it works here: "Online stores shipping to Moscow, Russia", but it's quite simplistic. Yandex.Market is more like Amazon if you look at its parametric search and filters.
- listic 12y ago
  I can switch, but for that I need to go explicitly to goole.com (it redirects to .ru), click "Use Google.com" and search. As opposed to searching right from the browser address bar. Shopping works if you use google.com, but if you use google.ru - it isn't there.
sam_lowry_ 12y ago
Yandex.Market has a great API that lets shops integrate with it. Some shops even manage to exist without having their own websites. They just sell through Yandex.Market. Google Shopping does not even come close.
mkr-hn 12y ago
Going by the description, Wordstat seems similar to Google Trends. And AdWords has several keyword research tools.
raquo 12y ago
Yandex market is awesome. It has a very detailed database of products, and lets you filter them by tons of tech specs and actually explains what they are. I use it all the time to find products in categories that I don't know much about. Amazon, Google shopping or whatever don't even come close.