What Is yandex.com, and Is It Safe?

Last Updated on September 5, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake

Yandex (yandex.com) is a search engine. Yandex was founded by Elena Kolmanovskaya, Ilya Segalovich, and Arkady Volozh. It was Segalovich who thought of the name “Yandex.” In 2023, Kolmanovskaya remains the chief editor of Yandex. Volozh is a well-known Russian billionaire.

ALTERNATIVES

Similar sites to yandex.com include ya.ru, bing.com, cuil.com, baidu.com, ask.com, tineye.com, google.com, duckduckgo.com, yastatic.net, and music.youtube.com.

DESCRIPTION

The homepage of yandex.com had a large search box in the middle above the fold. There was little color on the page; it seemed built for speed. Above the search box were six icons for images, video, maps, translate, weather, and mail. It also showed the weather beneath the search box on the left side. There was no chance to scroll below the fold. 4/17/2024

HISTORY

As of November 2023, yandex.com has 172.0 million monthly views. Yandex.com was founded on August 3, 2002. The Internet Archive has saved yandex.com 317,786 times between August 3, 2002 and January 1, 2024.

Is yandex.com Safe?

Here, I analyzed yandex.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam:

I checked yandex.com on Sucuri, and it returned as a low security risk.

Security hardening flaws:

• The ‘unsafe-eval’ keyword in Content-Security-Policy is not recommended. Affected pages:
  https://yandex.com/support/common/browsers-settings/browsers-java-js-settings.html
  https://yandex.com/support/smart-captcha/?unique_key=f152c22e-a56dfe2d-611d3fa-6368c4d3

I then ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on yandex.com, and it is clean.

I also checked yandex.com on VirusTotal, and it is flagged as suspicious by ArcSight Threat Intelligence. ArcSight Threat Intelligence gives a crowdsourced context grade of Low 1.

URLVoid says yandex.com passed all blocklist engines.

In conclusion, Sucuri says yandex.com doesn’t have malware. Unmask Parasites says yandex.com is clean of parasites. VirusTotal and Sucuri say yandex.com is flagged as suspicious by ArcSight Threat Intelligence. OVERALL GRADE: Safe.

Links and Profiles

Website: yandex.com