
The company's Shanghai office was launched in 2015 to facilitate work with Chinese companies operating on the Russian language market.

Its first research and development office in Europe started operating in Berlin in 2014.

The company opened its first European office in Lucerne in 2012 to serve advertising clients in the EU. The Istanbul office was launched together with the company's web portal in Turkey in 2011. The company's technology and business development unit, Yandex Labs, was opened in Silicon Valley in 2008. Yandex LLC's holding company, Yandex N.V., is registered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands as a naamloze vennootschap (Dutch public limited company), has its registered office in Schiphol Airport, and is listed in Nasdaq with a secondary listing in the Moscow Exchange. Its main competitors on the Russian market are Google, VK, and Rambler. It also has the largest market share of any search engine from Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States and is the 5th largest search engine worldwide after Google, Bing, Yahoo!, and Baidu. The firm is the largest technology company in Russia and the second largest search engine on the Internet in Russian, with a market share of over 42%. It primarily serves audiences in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States of the former Soviet Union, and has more than 30 offices worldwide.

Yandex LLC (Russian: Яндекс) is a Russian multinational technology company providing Internet-related products and services, including an Internet search engine, information services, e-commerce, transportation, maps and navigation, mobile applications, and online advertising. Yandex N.V., Schiphol Boulevard 165, Schiphol Airport, Netherlands
