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19971997: Searching the Russian Web
The growing Russian-language Web needed search tools.
Яndex-Web was unveiled on 23 September 1997. It handled Russian morphology, considered distances between words and ranked documents.
Search made separate websites accessible as an information space. The challenge was to go beyond matching words and identify documents useful for a query.
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