Yandex Gets Nasty With Link Sellers

We’re always talking about the various different penalties and algorithms that Google and Bing put into place to help protect their search results from any manipulation – but what about the other search engines out there? Yandex has recently launched a new update to their algorithm called AGS which targets link sellers and negatively effects […]

Yandex Releases New Browser Version

Being based out of New York City here in the States it’s easy to overlook Yandex – Russia’s premier search giant. However the search giant is far from being forgotten as they announce the release of a new alpha version of its browser. Yes I know – They have a browser? Yep. Since 2012 Yandex has been […]

Yandex Joins The “Not Provided” Club

Joining in with Google, Yahoo & recently Bing, Yandex has decided to also strip search query data from the referrer meaning that Yandex is now 100% not provided. The announcement roughly translated from Russian reads as follows: In December last year we started an experiment to encrypt text query in the Referrer , which gradually […]