Yandex announced seeding

Russian search engine Yandex has decided to get sustained with young blood, and announced that is looking for cooperation with perspective startups. The company is ready to provide them with its API services, let use social network interconnection graphs, and cooperate in every way. There are many directions that are of Yandex interest: new business models on the Internet, new services, multimedia technologies, geolocation tools, analysis, personal (e-mail, signups etc.) and public information stream (news, blogs etc.) structuring. Besides that, the company is interested in methods of users’ behavior analysis, and also in web-service and application interface solutions. Searching for new talents with interesting ideas, the company works close with a few startup communities: StartupPoint, Higher School of Economics business incubator, GreenfieldProject, Academy of National Economy business incubator. Other communities and projects, willing to join, may write to ventures@yandex-team.ru In order to communicate with startuppers, Yandex is planning to have a specialized Doors Open Day – Yandex.Start. The first this kind of event will be held at StartupPoint. It’s worth mentioning, that before today’s official announcement, Yandex quietly did the same. For instance, when Yandex was visiting Volgograd, Afishi.ru portal, informing users about cultural events (movies, theatres, parties etc.), tried to become friends with Russian #1 searching engine. It actually didn’t work out, told Sergo Narsia, Afishi.ru founder.