Getty Russia’s biggest search engine secretly put blocks in its code to stop images of Vladimir Putin showing up in the results of potentially embarrassing searches, according to a report, with Nazi iconography also allegedly scrubbed out of the results of queries for the “Z” symbol signifying support for the war in Ukraine. Last week, fragments of the source code for Yandex—sometimes likened to “Russia’s Google”—were leaked online. Experts have been poring over the code ever… Source link
Read More »Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leak: Insights
The search marketing community is trying to make sense of the leaked Yandex repository containing files listing what looks like search ranking factors. Some may be looking for actionable SEO clues but that’s probably not the real value. The general agreement is that it will be helpful for gaining a general understanding of how search engines work. If you want hacks or shortcuts those aren’t here. But if you want to understand more about how a search engine works. There’s gold. —… Source link
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Read More »Yandex scrapes Google and other SEO learnings from the source code leak
“Fragments” of Yandex’s codebase leaked online last week. Much like Google, Yandex is a platform with many aspects such as email, maps, a taxi service, etc. The code leak featured chunks of all of it. According to the documentation therein, Yandex’s codebase was folded into one large repository called Arcadia in 2013. The leaked codebase is a subset of all projects in Arcadia and we find several components in it related to the search engine in the “Kernel,” “Library,”… Source link
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Read More »Massive Yandex code leak reveals Russian search engine’s ranking factors
Enlarge / The Russian logo of Yandex, the country’s largest search engine and a tech company with many divisions, inside the company’s headquarters. SOPA Images / Getty Images Nearly 45GB of source code files, allegedly stolen by a former employee, have revealed the underpinnings of Russian tech giant Yandex’s many apps and services. It also revealed key ranking factors for Yandex’s search engine, the kind… Source link
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Read More »Yandex data breach reveals source code littered with racist language
Russian tech company Yandex has issued an apology after racial slurs were discovered in source code leaked in a recent data breach. Several references to racial slurs, including the ‘N-word’, were found in the company’s source code last week. A researcher first revealed the use of offensive terminology in a series of posts on Twitter on 26 January, sparking heavy criticism. In a statement, Yandex told IT Pro that an initial investigation showed that the leaked code “appears to be… Source link
Read More »Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leaked & Exposed
Yandex had a boatload of its source code across all its technology allegedly leaked by a disgruntled employee and part of that was the source code for Russia’s largest search engine – Yandex. As you can imagine, SEOs and others are diving in and seeing what they can learn from the source code. I personally did not download the source code, so I did not go through it myself but I wanted to share what people did find via Twitter from their investigations of the source code. Here’s the… Source link
Read More »Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leaked & Revealed – Search Engine Roundtable
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