Yandex
English
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Etymology
[edit]The name initially stood for “Yet Another iNDEXer”. The Russian word я (ja) corresponds to the English personal pronoun “I”, making Яndex a bilingual pun on index.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Yandex
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) A Russian Internet company which operates the largest search engine in Russia.
- (computing) A search engine that popularized the company of the same name.
Translations
[edit]Yandex (in other scripts, the trademark may also be written in Roman letters)
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Verb
[edit]Yandex (third-person singular simple present Yandexes, present participle Yandexing, simple past and past participle Yandexed)
- (rare, transitive) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Yandex search engine.
- 2011 winter, Anthony Marra, “Palace of the People”, in The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories, London; New York, N.Y.: Hogarth, published 2015, →ISBN, page 263:
- We knew nothing of history—decent odds that three of the four of us couldn’t tell you what year Jesus was born—but we staked our futures by predicting it. We took bets: The war would finish in a year, two, five. Browsing old newspapers and Yandexing court reports, we found sentences to fit each prediction. A year for assaulting an ethnic minority. Two to five for armed robbery. Three to seven for narcotics smuggling.
- [2013 May 16, Vance Cariaga, “Firmly Entrenched ‘Russian Google’ Sees Growth Ahead”, in Investor’s Business Daily, Los Angeles, Calif., →ISSN, page A5:
- Do they say “Let’s Yandex it” the way U.S. Internet users say, “Let’s Google it?” Probably not — even though Yandex (YNDX) is Russia’s largest search engine, with more than 60% of the market. […] Run a search of “Yandexed” and you come up with about 400 results. Run a search of “Googled” and you get closer to 68 million.
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- 2015 January 21, Ilya Zarembsky, “Take a Photo Tour of Long-Forgotten Soviet Russian Arcade Games”, in Vice[1], archived from the original on 2020-11-08:
- I went to Moscow this fall and while there, I quit drinking forever. I hadn't planned this, so, like anyone finding himself in an ancient metropolis with unexpected free time on his hands, I pulled out my phone and Yandexed "video game museum Москва."
- 2020 March 7, Shadow, “Any freeware to convert a WEBP image file to JPEG or PNG on WIN XP?”, in alt.comp.freeware[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-12-05:
- They SENT me the bl^%$^dy things in an email. I though it might be faulty malware until I looked at the file headers. //RIFFDG??WEBPVP8 8G// Then I Yandexed it.
