Yandex will distract part of Wikipedia users with the help of Timeline with celebrity information

"Yandex" plans to divert the attention of some users of "Wikipedia" and online media using a new form of submitting information about celebrities, writes Kommersant . The new format gives a list of events for search queries about celebrities, sorted by year. A company representative told Kommersant that the format is closest to the chronicle of events.



The experimental Timeline format is automatically generated based on the Yandex.News database, Yandex search algorithms, and uses the popularity of documents, the number of links to them, and authority. The company refers to the competitors of the new format "Wikipedia" and tabloids. The main difference of the Timeline from competitors is a structured issue with automatic selection of the most interesting events. The stream is formed by automatic algorithms, not by the editors.

Yandex algorithms search the News base for messages with an object in the header, group messages into stories, and compile a list of events in order of decreasing user interest. The data for issuing "Yandex" takes, including in the "Wikipedia" and "Kinopoisk" .
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The representative of "Yandex" reports that the decision to launch the format has not yet been made, to talk about its monetization is early. In the future, it may occur through advertising. Changes in the issue is not yet visible to all users.