Press portraits - in a separate section

The press portraits service known to Yandex.News users is highlighted in a separate section. Now the news picture of the day can be contemplated in the faces - through the main page of the service. The press portraits themselves, as before, are digests of a person, automatically created from media materials.

The fact that the press portraits appeared "face", it became known from the blog "Yandex" . Lead developer Lev Gershenzon illustrates the capabilities of the service: with it, for example, you can get a list of the most popular heavyweight boxers or French writers , find out who Microsoft is engaged in marketing , or find out that the phrase “Ivanov from Yandex” at least three people.

Press portraits in Yandex. News appeared a year ago. Currently, in addition to information about the places of work and positions of a person, his words and statements of third parties about him, the service gives out dates of birth and death. “We have learned not only to highlight names in the news story, but also to understand what kind of person we are talking about, and to offer a link to the necessary press portrait in the“ story in faces ”block,” writes Lev Gershenzon. According to him, each press portrait is accompanied by a list of related characters.