Yandex Launches recommendations City

Yandex Launches recommendations City

The largest Russian search engine Yandex today launched new City, with which the company hopes to market local recommendations and reviews. By their logic City is a lot like the popular western service recommendations Yelp. Yandeks.Gorod allows you to select the organization in any city of Russia. Users can search for them by popularity, location and other parameters.

"When we need to choose any institution, we usually ask for advice from friends. However, they can not always help simply because of lack of experience. On Yandeks.Gorode you can choose the organization, relying on the experience of many people, - says the head of service Cyril Votyakov. - Later Yandeks.Gorod will solve all the problems associated with organizations until reservations or write for a haircut.

In Moscow, St. Petersburg and partly in several cities, this functionality is already available, so far only in the web version. " It follows from the description of the service, at Yandeks.Goroda now the biggest base of reviews in Russia. Their transfer service about 70 partner sites. Yandex analyzes reviewed with the help of technology to extract facts from the text and the web version of the service shows the most informative fragments. For organizations with enough reviews Yandeks

Gorod rating shows. It is calculated based on many factors and is protected from cheating. uses a new service organizations Yandex, as well as information provided by partners. To attract new customers, companies themselves can add information about yourself to the database Yandex. They will be available not only on Yandeks.Gorode, but also in finding, on the maps, mobile applications and Yandex Navigator.

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Yandex introduces a new search engine Dublin

Yandex updated his personal search. As described in the company, and now he is able to take into account not only the permanent interests of the user, but also the short-term. For example, if a football fan decides to read about the cities of England , for [Manchester] Yandex offers him above all the city, and not a football club. The updated search launched on the basis of new search engine - Dublin. still searcher improved his knowledge of the interests of users every day. This allowed us to consider both the long-term interests (for example, love for football) and shorter (say, to wallpaper during repairs).

New search can react to short-term interests that arise and quickly extinguished. Requests caused by short-term interests, a lot - more than half. To take them into account when answering the question, Yandex search engine analyzes the data of the current user session. They begin to affect the results in just a few seconds.

So if a person has just said about the movie, on request [Anna Karenina] Yandex will offer him first movie, not the book. New version of personalized search works for all users. Even when man first walked on Yandex and asked a couple of questions, the search is already beginning to take into account their interests. To respond instantly to changes in exploratory behavior of people Yandex created a data processing system in real time. It handles more than 10 terabytes of data per day, constantly adjusting its knowledge of the needs of users.

"Yandex several years working to ensure that all people have the most appropriate response to him. Initially the program was started," Reykjavik ", taking into account the language preferences of users. With the launch of "Kaliningrad" search has become resistant to adapt to the interests of the people. Yandex is now ready to consider even a short-term interests of users, of course, if they do not mind. As before, a personal search can be disabled in the service, "- said in a statement.

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