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Russian Google Rival In Deal With Facebook

  • Gigaom, Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:19 PM

Russian web giant Yandex has struck a deal with Facebook that will see it index publicly posted content on the social network that comes from the countries Yandex covers – Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Turkey. This “firehose” deal is similar to that signed a few years back between Facebook and Microsoft, relating to the Bing search engine. Twitter also invites others to drink from its firehose, and Yandex has been a happy partner on that front since early 2012.

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