Yandex, in 2011 probably the largest internet company flotation after Google in 2004, was founded and dominates web searching in which country?
Yandex page is the 4th most popular website in Russia. It also has the largest market share of any search engine in the Commonwealth of Independent States and is the 5th largest search engine worldwide after Google, Baidu, Bing, and Yahoo!. Yandex's main competitors on the Russian market are Google, Mail.ru, and Rambler. According to the company, one of its biggest advantages for Russian-language users is the ability to recognize Russian inflection in search queries. Yandex has invested in companies including Vizi Labs, Face.com, Blekko, Seismotech, Multiship, SalesPredict, and Doc+. Yandex has offices in 17 countries. Yandex launched Yandex Labs in
Yandex initial public offering on NASDAQ. It was the biggest initial public offering for a dot-com company since Google's offering in 2004. Among the largest investors in Yandex were Baring Vostok Capital Partners, which owned a 30% stake, and Tiger Management, which owned a 15% stake. In August 2011, Yandex acquired The Tweeted Times, a news delivery startup. In September 2011, Yandex launched a search engine and a range of other services in Turkey. The company also opened an office in Istanbul. In September 2011, the company invested in Blekko as part of a $30 million financing round. In November 2011,