Yandex

1. computingA search engine owned by the company of the same name.

   Synonyms: Yasha

present singular third person Yandexes · participle present Yandexing · participle past Yandexed · past Yandexed

1. raretransitiveTo search for (something) on the Internet using the Yandex search engine.

   They SENT me the bl^%$^dy things in an email. I though it might be faulty malware until I looked at the file headers. //RIFFDG??WEBPVP8 8G// Then I Yandexed it.

   2020 March 7, Shadow, “Any freeware to convert a WEBP image file to JPEG or PNG on WIN XP?”, in alt.comp.freeware (Usenet), archived from the original on 05 Dec 2024

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   We knew nothing of history—decent odds that three of the four of us couldn’t tell you what year Jesus was born—but we staked our futures by predicting it. We took bets: The war would finish in a year, two, five. Browsing old newspapers and Yandexing court reports, we found sentences to fit each prediction. A year for assaulting an ethnic minority. Two to five for armed robbery. Three to seven for narcotics smuggling.

   2011 winter, Anthony Marra, “Palace of the People”, in The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories, London; New York, N.Y.: Hogarth, published 2015, →ISBN, page 263

   Do they say “Let’s Yandex it” the way U.S. Internet users say, “Let’s Google it?” Probably not — even though Yandex (YNDX) is Russia’s largest search engine, with more than 60% of the market. […] Run a search of “Yandexed” and you come up with about 400 results. Run a search of “Googled” and you get closer to 68 million.

   [2013 May 16, Vance Cariaga, “Firmly Entrenched ‘Russian Google’ Sees Growth Ahead”, in Investor’s Business Daily, Los Angeles, Calif., →ISSN, page A5

   I went to Moscow this fall and while there, I quit drinking forever. I hadn't planned this, so, like anyone finding himself in an ancient metropolis with unexpected free time on his hands, I pulled out my phone and Yandexed "video game museum Москва."

   2015 January 21, Ilya Zarembsky, “Take a Photo Tour of Long-Forgotten Soviet Russian Arcade Games”, in Vice, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2020