Mail.ru rejected Google search

Mail.ru decided not to renew the contract with Google and fully switch to its issue, Kommersant reports . Prior to this, Mail.ru independently processed 40% of search requests, Google worked with the remaining 60.

According to the company, over the past six months, the Mail.ru index has been expanded from 5 to 10 billion documents, and several thousand servers have been allocated for processing search queries. The project team for several years increased from 15 to 200 people.

Since launching its search portal, Mail.ru has partially used technologies from other companies. Initially it was Google, later the company signed an agreement with Yandex, in August 2010 Mail.ru renewed the contract with Google.
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Now Mail.ru ranks third among the search engines in Russia. According to Liveinternet.ru for June, Yandex occupied 61.6% of the market, Google - 26.3%, Go.mail.ru - 8.6%, Rambler - 1.3%. According to ComScore, the global monthly audience of Go.mail.ru in May amounted to 39.5 million users.

Last October, Mail.ru loudly announced plans for international expansion, and even launched the domain My.com. However, this address is still only a stub, and in June, the CEO of Mail.ru Group, Dmitry Grishin, said that the company is only “exploring the possibilities of introducing its own products to foreign markets”.