Yandex News

Yandex News tracks announcements and product updates from Yandex Search and the wider Yandex group. Algorithm communications, webmaster tool changes, and feature launches are logged here with an eye on what international SEO teams need to act on.

Background archive for Yandex SEO programmes — pair it with Yandex SEO and Yandex AI for tactics and generative-search depth. We favour searchable, dated records of what Yandex said and shipped over speculative rumour.

Clear British-English editorial in the ReadIsi / International Search Insights style for practitioners monitoring Russian-language search.

A Third Yandex Data Centre Goes Dark: Vladimir Strike Knocks Out Metrika, Webmaster and the Direct Interface

Yandex Can’t Confirm Sasovo’s Hardware Can Be Saved — and Thursday’s Outage Hit Far More Than Yandex Cloud

Drones Knock Out Yandex’s Biggest Data Centre — Search Says It’s Fine, Yandex Cloud’s ru-central1-b Is Not

Yandex Open-Sources the Engine Behind Its Ad Models — Press Release Says Delay “Almost Eliminated”, Engineers Say Two Hours

Yandex Puts BM25 and Vectors in One SQL Query — and Reminds Everyone Why Exact Match Still Matters

Yandex Trains AliceAI-Foundation-80B From Scratch — and Open-Sources the Base

Yandex Unlocks Flagship Alice Chat Models for Free — With Live Search Citations

Yandex Alice AI Adds Expert Mode and Automatic Model Routing

Yandex AI-Blender Chooses SERP Blocks in About 50 Milliseconds

Yandex Opens Alice AI Search Pretrain Model to Researchers