Yandex Browser Updates

[Bapun]

Russia's Yandex launches web browser to rival Google

MOSCOW: Russia's dominant search engine Yandex on Monday launched its own Internet browser in the continuing face-off with its American rival Google for supremacy in the growing Russian market.

The browser became available for download at 1300 GMT and offers a relatively minimalist Russian-language interface based on the WebKit platform and Google's Chromium code.

The " cloud-based" browser "integrates the best of our products and services and is open to other web developers," Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh said in the official company statement.

It incorporates the anti-virus technology of Russian security company Kaspersky Lab and "considerably expands the browsing territory for those who speak only one language," the statement said.

The browser's logo, a white sphere with a red "Y" stretching across it, was instantly nicknamed "the thong" by Russians commenting the company's announcement on Facebook.

Yandex is the world's fifth-largest search engine that claims over 25 million daily visits to its main page Yandex.ru.

Like Google, it also offers an array of services from email to blogs and web storage, as well as a popular page for navigating Moscow's traffic jams and an electronic money system.

Despite the advancement of Google, which now holds a quarter of all Russian searches, 15-year-old Yandex is still far ahead with about 60 percent of the share, and had a successful public listing in 2011.

The company clashed with Google earlier this year when founder and CEO Volozh, who also holds a stake of just under 20 percent in Yandex, accused the US company of being anti-competitive by making it difficult to use other search engines with its browser Chrome.

"Two years ago... everyone started eating everyone else. Google began advancing its Chrome browser and actively pushing out competitors from it," Volozh said in an interview to Vedomosti Monday.

"If the product is good, then our share will grow," he said.

Russia's Yandex launches web browser to rival Google - The Economic Times

 

[Bapun]

Installed in my PC.. Looks are same as Chrome.. Pics :

 

[iS THAT ME]

Well,....nothing beats the Good Old Firefox !

 

[Bapun]

Yandex rolls out new version of its browser with built-in data compression

Russian internet firm Yandex has begun automatically updating its browser to version 1.1, which includes the Turbo technology, licensed earlier by Opera Software. The new feature is aimed at users with weak Internet connections, automatically compressing data that is being downloaded.

Yandex Browser 1.1 was rolled out about a month after the browser’s initial release. It’s a Webkit-powered product, like Chrome and Safari, available for Windows and Mac OS.

As was promised at the launch event in early October, the main improvement of the new version is the built-in Opera Turbo technology. Developed by Norwegian company Opera Software, which has a browser of its own, Turbo automatically compresses incoming data to aid clients with weak Internet connections, which is still a problem in some areas of Russia and other CIS countries.

To be precise, after analyzing a webpage Turbo compresses its HTML code with gzip, converts heavy graphics from JPEG to the WebP format and sends the resulting package to the user by the SPDY protocol. Audio and video content as well as Flash and encrypted pages (such as online banking) don’t get compressed.

All the compression takes place on Yandex proxy servers.

The Turbo feature can be activated manually or automatically when the connection speed drops below 128 Kbps.

Turbo: Yandex Rolls Out New Version Of Its Browser