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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Microsoft’s Bing search engine returned nearly five times as many links to websites containing some type of malicious code than Google, according to a recent study by the German independent testing lab AV-Test. AV-Test conducted an 18-month study during which they collected 40 million websites provided by seven different search engines – 10 million each from Bing and Google, 13 million from Russian search engine Yandex, and...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Yandex, the search engine you’ve probably never heard of outside of the United States, has just become the world’s fourth most popular search engine, overtaking Microsoft’s Bing. The popularity of these search engines was measured by ComScore qSearch, which found the search engine landscape looks mostly as one might expect. Google is the obvious leader, with 114.7 billion search queries, capturing 65.2 percent of the global...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Yandex’s social search app Wonder and Twitter’s Vine mobile video creation and sharing service have been prohibited from searching on Facebook’s social graph. Wonder, which was only officially launched for the iPhone and iPod Touch on Thursday, compiles information from a user’s social media accounts to suggest things or places that might be of interest. According to the Russian search engine firm, the plan was for the...

SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Huntkey 20th anniversary online gaming event started on Oct. 1st and ended on Nov. 30th, 2012. During this period, many players took part in the event and it was a really tough job choosing our first prize winners. Finally, we're releasing our first prize winners today: Gulnara Kazkenova kazkenovag@yandex.ru ----------------- -------------------- valentina...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Russian parliament yesterday unanimously decided to adopt a bill which allows them to exercise a greater control over the Internet. Now, many Russians are worried this is just the first step to widespread censorship by the Russian government. Only one man stands between this bill and the law: Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. Similar to the Internet protests which occurred when the U.S. Government voted on bills SOPA and...

An interesting change is about to occur in the global browser battles as Firefox rolls out its latest version in the Russian market. No longer will Russian search engine Yandex be the default browser, instead, Russians will see Google search results. The Yandex search service, which was added as the default option in Russian-language Firefox builds starting in early 2009, has a market share in Russia of approximately 60 percent while Google currently enjoys about 26.5 percent, writes...

Michael Harper for RedOrbit.com As it turns out, when you decide to take your over-inflated social networking company public, you want to make the thing as profitable and sustainable as possible. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, and as such, the rumors have begun to fly about who and what Facebook will be acquiring and buying. Yesterday, for instance, the rumor du jour was the once-fabled Facebook smartphone. Now, rumors are beginning to pop up about another possible Zuck purchase to...

MUNICH, May 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- "Over 50 million Russians use the internet, making the country a dynamic digital and consumer market. That's why DLD now offers international investors, companies and experts direct insights and networking opportunities in the Russian digital world," explain Steffi Czerny and Marcel Reichart, founder and Managing Director of DLD. Numerous founders and management boards of leading Russian digital companies - including Arkady Volozh,...

MUNICH, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Market leaders Mail.ru, Vkontakte and Yandex, together with a further 40 speakers and 400 guests, will debate Russia's digital future. Russia is one of the fastest growing and leading European digital markets, as demonstrated by the user numbers and the capitalisation of internet giants such as Mail.ru, Vkontakte and Yandex. The digital conference, DLD Moscow, taking place from 27-29 May 2012, is being held in the Russian metropolis...

A partnership has been agreed to between Russian search engine Yandex and social network Twitter that will allow Yandex to show recent tweets in search engine results as Twitter continues its growth into an increasingly important source of real-time information. Yandex will have access to the constant flow of public tweets in an agreement similar to the one the social short-messaging site has with Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, Reuters’ Georgina Prodhan reports. Twitter’s...