Top 5+ Facts about Yandex (Sometimes Called Google of Russia)

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Many people haven’t heard about Yandex . It is one of the Biggest Corporations based out of Russia. They are the Biggest Rival of Google in Russia.  Some people even treat it as the Google of Russia. Below are some of the Interesting Facts about Yandex –

1. Yandex Search Engine

Very Similar to Google search Engine . It is the 5th largest search engine worldwide after Google, Baidu, Bing, and Yahoo!.

2. Yandex Browser

A Browser product from Yandex

3. Catboost - Machine Learning Library

Stands for Categorical Boosting  - it is machine learning library based on gradient boosting. Yandex open sourced it for public , released under an Apache license. For more details and code samples , please refer below. https://catboost.ai/docs/ https://github.com/catboost/catboost

4. Data Conferences

They have a very good Research\Data Scientist\Engineering team. And some of their courses are freely available on various platform for the Data Science or Big Data enthusiasts . You could check the list available at - https://www.classcentral.com/institution/yandex  

5. Competitive Products  

Yandex also offer  email(Yandex mail) , live traffic maps(Yandex Maps) , music (Yandex Music) etc.