Yandex rolls out networking searchFebruary 20, 2012 - 13:06 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Yandex, biggest Internet search and related services company, announced its social networking search program, aimed at enhancing its search engine's quality by adding content from social networking websites, Globe Newswire reported. Yandex rolled out a beta version of its people finder. Yandex web users in Russia can now view all public profiles of a person with accounts on the country's most popular social networking and blogging websites, such as VKontakte, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Odnoklassniki. Yandex processes over two million people searches daily. About one half of these search queries are to find information about celebrities, while the other half ask about someone's friend, a contact, an employee or a partner. In response to these queries, Yandex delivers links to personal profiles on social networking websites available for public access -- only those pages that can be indexed by a search engine. Currently, Yandex's index has about 250 million personal profile pages hosted on various blogging platforms and social networking websites. If more than one personal profile matches the user's search query, Yandex adds one of the profiles to the top of its search results page and shows all others on a separate page. This page also features search options such as age, location, or workplace to quickly refine search results. If multiple profiles exist for the same person, they are grouped together in the search results. In addition to finding old friends and contacts, Yandex's people search offers web users an opportunity to see their online profiles the way other people see them, and either edit them or change their privacy settings on the website that hosts the profile. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Court in Azerbaijan extends former Karabakh leader’s arrest by 5 months The Binagadi District Court in Azerbaijan has granted the prosecutor’s petition to extend the arrest of Arkady Ghukasyan. U.S. still believes “peace is possible” between Armenia, Azerbaijan The United States continues to believe that peace is possible between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Vedant Patel says. Dozens detained as antigovernment protest continue in Armenia At least 63 people demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation were detained on May 14 as they blocked streets in Yerevan. Family of Ilham Aliyev’s security chief owns vast property in UK As head of security for Azerbaijan’s president, Eyyubov is closely trusted by one of the world’s most authoritarian leaders. |