Why did Yandex start with the Bible? Where did Yandex.Poems and Yandex.News come from? Why didn't Google manage to buy Yandex? How is Yandex connected to the state and why did this search engine become possible and successful? The answers are hidden not only in Yandex employees, but also in people who had serious experience in converting an intellectual product into money, in American roots, which we will talk about.

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Gleb Suvorov, founder of the Rospravosudie portal (has now left the project), told his version of the emergence of Yandex - an terribly long text with an abundance of archival photos, excursions into history, not the most famous details and characters. Probably, Yandexoids wrote to each member of the editorial board with a request or demand to correct, remove, burn and forget. However, there were no substantive complaints, everyone refused to point out factual inaccuracies, and did not comment, citing the fact that since everything is not true, then there is nothing to comment on. Yuri Sinodov, in a conversation with one of the Yandex employees, said that the history of the company not as saccharine and not as random as the available literature suggests. Suvorov gave a huge number of new angles, which should also be revealed and clarified, since now they can be considered too one-sided. But there is a significant difference between one-sidedness and lies. We expect that readers with business experience will be able to make a large number of mental corrections to the texts. One can lament the fact that there is no disclaimer before the text about the structure of the information, that any event upon closer examination becomes more and more complicated and breaks up into other events. But writing such a disclaimer on “Roem!” - do not respect your reader.