Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 26
By Umid Niayesh - Trend:
Russian search engine Yandex rejects Iranian minister's statements about opening an office in Tehran.
"Currently we have no plans to open new offices," Yandex press office told Trend Oct. 26.
Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi said on Oct. 25 that the company plans to open offices in Iran.
Talking on the sideline of a meeting with Russian Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov, Vaezi said it was agreed that Yandex would open an office in Iran to optimize its services for the Iranian people.
Meanwhile Yandex emphasized that the company is open to new cooperation opportunities.
"We are always ready to discuss new opportunities for partnership," the company's press office underlined.
Yandex is a Russian Internet company that operates the largest search engine in Russia with about 60 percent market share in that country. It also develops a number of Internet-based services and products.
The company ranked as the 4th largest search engine worldwide, based on information from Comscore.com, with more than 150 million searches per day as of April 2012, and more than 50.5 million visitors (all company's services) daily as of February 2013.
Yandex also has a very large presence in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, providing nearly a third of all search results in those markets and 43 percent of all search results in Belarus.
Edited by CN
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