The secret of such a resounding success of the Russian search engine is that it never stopped developing. In addition, the company's co-founder Arkady Volozh always knew how to concentrate on the main tasks.
For example, the main focus has always been on developing four main pages:
Home page
Search results page
The Inbox page in Mail
Page with a map and information on it
Each of these pages was supposed to answer general or personal (from registered users) questions.
Yandex's main task is overseas chinese in usa datato answer users' questions. Yandex was, is and will be a universal reference service, which ideally should provide a "relevant" answer to any question that corresponds to the request.
At the same time, new services that appeared in Yandex were always connected to at least one of these “four pages”.
Yandex has long ceased to be just a search portal, advertising in which, by the way, makes up 60% of the company's total profit. Yandex is a multi-profile company with a whole range of different services.
In 2013, after the death of one of the co-founders of Yandex, Ilya Segalovich, who was only 48 years old at the time, Arkady Volozh said:
"There is no one to replace Ilya. And he does not need to be replaced. We need to continue building the company. So that after ourselves we leave a living system that someone else will also continue to build, and it will also be different - but also living."
Arkady Volozh today
Even after Arkady left the board of directors and resigned as CEO of Yandex, the IT giant continues to operate as usual. According to the company's owners, "it's easy to move along a well-trodden path, but you can stop very quickly. It is important to maintain the same pace of development and high quality of the products being developed . "
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In 2021, Arkady Volozh was included in the list of the richest businessmen in Russia. In this rating, he occupied 57th place, and his fortune was estimated at $2.3 billion.
It is noted that on February 24, when the Russian president announced a special operation in Ukraine, Volozh lost more than $400 million.
Following the above-mentioned events, the European Union imposed personal sanctions against Arkady Volozh. Almost immediately, the co-founder of Yandex resigned from all posts in the Russian division of the company.
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The billionaire himself considered the actions of the EU authorities "counterproductive" and "wrong", but did not interfere in the company's decision-making. Company representatives made it clear that Yandex is not going anywhere:
"Millions of our users will continue to search and find information, use taxi services and delivery of goods, food and medicine, watch movies, listen to music, study and do much more with the help of Yandex."