Tag Archives: Leak

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

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex scrapes Google and other SEO learnings from the source code leak  Search Engine Land Source link

“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

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Massive Yandex code leak reveals Russian search engine’s ranking factors  Ars Technica Source link

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

A former employee allegedly leaked a Yandex source code repository, part of which contained more than 1,900 factors the search engines uses for ranking search results. Why we care. This leak has revealed 1,922 ranking factors Yandex used in its search algorithm, at least as of July 2022. Perhaps Martin MacDonald put it best on Twitter today: “The Yandex hack is probably the most interesting thing to have happened in SEO in years.” Yandex is… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex denies hack, blames source code leak on former employee  BleepingComputer Source link

A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian technology company has been leaked as a Torrent on a popular hacking forum. Yesterday, the leaker posted a magnet link that they claim are ‘Yandex git sources’ consisting of 44.7 GB of files stolen from the company in July 2022. These code repositories allegedly contain all of the company’s source code besides anti-spam rules. Yandex repository leaked on hacker forums (BleepingComputer) Software… Source link

A new hands-on video was posted today of the alleged Google Pixel 7a. The 49-second clip shows a device that reflects previous leaks and rumors about Google’s next mid-ranged Pixel. The device in question, posted on Slashleaks (first spotted by 9to5Google), looks similar to the Pixel 6a and Google’s 2022 flagships. The device name in Android 13 settings says “Pixel 7a,” and the handset runs internal pre-release (“design validation test”) software. The phone’s language is also… Source link

Information recently found within Google’s camera code strongly suggests that next year’s Pixel flagships will support a powerful new feature that the current Pixel 7 range will never be able to provide. The information comes, once again, from infamous leaker Kuba Wojciechowski who has discovered an experimental new Pixel camera mode concealed within the code of Google’s latest Camera Go app. The mode, named “Staggered HDR”, appears in a code section labeled… Source link