Queen Mother Tshering Pem is one of the four wives and queens of Bhutanese king Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who ruled until his abdication in 2006. She is the Queen Mother of Bhutan.
Animator.ru is a Russian website chronicling the films, people and studios of the animation industry in Russia, the former Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). It also includes a forum, a news block, a photo-gallery and an animators labour exchange. The database is available in Russian and English, while the other sections are Russian-language only.
Yandex Search is a web search engine owned by Russian corporation Yandex. It is the core product of Yandex. In January 2015 Yandex Search generated 51.2% of all search traffic in Russia according to LiveInternet.
Schema.org is a collaborative community activity with a mission to "create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond." Webmasters use this shared vocabulary to structure metadata on their websites and to help search engines understand the published content, a technique known as search engine optimization.
Web search engines are listed in tables below for comparison purposes. The first table lists the company behind the engine, volume and ad support and identifies the nature of the software being used as free software or proprietary software. The second table lists internet privacy aspects along with other technical parameters, such as whether the engine provides personalization.
Yandex.Disk is a cloud service created by Yandex that lets users store files on “cloud” servers and share them with others online. The service is based on syncing data between different devices. Yandex.Disk was launched in English in June 2012.
Yandex Browser is a freeware web browser developed by the Russian web search corporation Yandex that uses the Blink web browser engine and is based on the Chromium open source project. The browser checks webpage security with the Yandex security system and checks downloaded files with Kaspersky anti-virus. The browser also uses Opera Software's Turbo technology to speed web browsing on slow connections.
KinoPoisk is a Russian website about cinematography. The site provides information about films, TV shows, actors, directors, producers, screenwriters, composers, editors, etc. It also has some features of social networks. At the moment it is one of the most popular movie portals of the Runet, it occupies the 12th line in Alexa rating of Russian websites as of July 2019. It was often compared to IMDb.
Cocaine is an open-source PaaS system for creating custom cloud hosting apps that are similar to Bluemix, Google App Engine or Heroku. Several services have already been implemented this way, including a service for detecting a user's region or language, a service for accessing MongoDB storage, and a URL fetcher.
Yandex.Money is Russia's largest electronic payment service according to a 2016 survey by TNS. It is an online payment service that works with two types of clients — individual users and merchants.
Yandex.Translate is a web service provided by Yandex, intended for the translation of text or web pages into another language.
Sputnik is a web search engine owned by the Russian state-owned telecommunications company Rostelecom. It markets itself as an engine geared towards "local services". At the end of the week of the launch, it was responsible for 0.01% of the search engine traffic in Russia, compared with 62% for Yandex and 28% for Google. It went through the maximum in February 2016, with 11 thousands hits. In January 2017, Sputnik was the 15th most popular search engine in Russia, with 1 / 32,000 times the hits of Yandex. The experts generally consider Sputnik as a failed project and note that it only exists because of the state funding.
Yandex.Taxi is an international IT company that operates ride-hailing and food tech businesses across Russia, CIS, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The company is among the world's leading developers of self-driving technology.
Yandex Launcher is a free GUI for organizing the workspace on Android smartphones.
Yandex.Maps is a Russian web mapping service developed by Yandex. The service provides detailed maps of the whole world. It includes a search, information about traffic jams, routing and street panoramas. The service was launched in 2004.
Alice is a Russian intelligent personal assistant for Android, iOS and Windows operating systems developed by Yandex. Alice was officially introduced on 10 October 2017. Aside from common tasks, such as internet search or weather forecasts, it can also run applications and chit-chat. Alice is also the virtual assistant used for the Yandex Station smart speaker.
Yandex.Drive is a Russian carsharing service owned by Yandex. The service in Moscow and Moscow Oblast launched in February 2018. The vehicle park consists of Kia Rio, Kia Rio X-Line, Renault Kaptur, Audi A3, Audi Q3 and Porsche Macan. As of August 2019 its vehicle fleet is over 11500 cars. It is the largest carsharing company in Russia by car fleet, second largest in Europe and third largest in the world after car2go and Zipcar.
Yandex self-driving car is a Robo-Taxi project of internet corporation Yandex. First driverless prototype launched in May 2017. As of 2018, functional service was launched in Russia with prototypes being tested in Israel and the US.
Yandex.Checkout is a Russian online payment system operated by Yandex.Money, a joint venture of Russian technology corporation Yandex and the largest bank in Russia Sberbank. Yandex.Checkout was launched in late 2013. Yandex.Checkout has been the most popular payment application in Russia since 2015.. By the end of 2018, the service was used by over 106.000 websites around the globe, including major online retailers and government services portals totaling for over 31% of online payment processing market in Russia by 2018.
