The Russian Internet company Yandex has launched its own Internet browser.

The Russian Internet company Yandex has launched its own Internet browser. Yandex General Director Arkady Volozh told reporters in Moscow about this. The volume of investment in this project has not been specified.

The interface of the new browser is based on the open source Chromium code, and WebKit is selected as the engine. The next version of the product will also use Opera Turbo technology, which will allow Internet pages to load faster on low connection speeds. The browser supports Windows and Mac OS operating systems.

Today, October 1, 2012, at 17:00 Moscow time it will be available for download.

The Yandex browser is integrated with the company's online services, for example, search, translation services and others. The program also includes built-in search and navigation tips with ready-made answers from Yandex services. In the address bar you can enter both website addresses and search queries. The most visited resources by the user are displayed on a special display.

Let us remember that at the end of September 2012. Mail.ru Group also announced the launch of its own Internet browser. The Amigo browser is developed based on Chromium and is aimed at users of social networks. While the product is not available for download, it is undergoing alpha testing.

Yandex is one of the largest Russian IT companies and the seventh search engine in the world in terms of the number of requests processed. Yandex appeared in 1997. May 19, 2010 the company launched an English-language version of its search engine on the yandex.com domain, thus reaching the international level. May 24, 2011 Class A ordinary shares of Yandex began trading on the American Nasdaq exchange in the Nasdaq Global Select Market section. As part of the IPO, 52.174 million Yandex shares were placed at a price of $25 per share, the placement volume amounted to $1.3 billion (excluding the oversubscription option). The final volume of proceeds from the sale of shares as part of the IPO of Yandex in favor of the company itself and a number of its shareholders reached $1.43 billion. Net profit of Yandex according to US GAAP for the second quarter of 2012. compared to the same period in 2011 increased by 76% - up to 2 billion rubles. ($60.4 million). Consolidated revenue for the reporting period reached 6.8 billion rubles. ($207.2 million), which is 50% more than a year earlier.

Yandex launched its own Internet browser