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Yandex

/ˈjan.dɛks/

Yandex proper noun: a search engine owned by the company of the same name.

Proper noun

Yandex

  1. A search engine owned by the company of the same name.
    Synonyms:
    Yasha

Verb

Yandex (third-person singular simple present Yandexes, present participle Yandexing, simple past and past participle Yandexed)

  1. (rare, transitive) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Yandex search engine.
    • 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...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...[2013 May 16, Vance Cariaga, “Firmly Entrenched ‘Russian Google’ Sees Growth Ahead”, in Investor’s Business Daily, Los Angeles, Calif., →ISSN, page A5

Yandex meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Persian

Yandex in Hindi

Yandex (in other scripts, the trademark may also be written in Roman letters)
यांदेक्स yāndeks

Yandex in Tamil

Yandex (in other scripts, the trademark may also be written in Roman letters)
யான்டெக்ஸ் yāṉṭeks

Yandex in Arabic

Yandex (in other scripts, the trademark may also be written in Roman letters)
يَانْدِكْس yāndiks

Yandex in Persian

Yandex (in other scripts, the trademark may also be written in Roman letters)
یاندکس yândeks
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Yandex in Thai
ยานเดกซ์ yaan-dɛ́ɛk

Examples of Yandex in a sentence

  • Browsing old newspapers and Yandexing court reports, we found sentences to fit each prediction.2011 winter, Anthony Marra, “Palace of the People”, in The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories, London; New York, N.Y.: Hogarth, published...
  • Do they say “Let’s Yandex it” the way U.S.[2013 May 16, Vance Cariaga, “Firmly Entrenched ‘Russian Google’ Sees Growth Ahead”, in Investor’s Business Daily, Los Angeles, Calif....
  • 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...
  • 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...

Synonyms of Yandex

Forms of Yandex

third-person singular presentYandexes
present participleYandexing
past participleYandexed
pastYandexed

Origin of Yandex

The name initially stood for “Yet Another iNDEXer”. The Russian word я (ja) corresponds to the English personal pronoun “I”, making Яndex a bilingual pun on index.

Questions about Yandex

What does Yandex mean?
Yandex means a search engine owned by the company of the same name.
What is Yandex in Hindi?
Yandex in Hindi is यांदेक्स (yāndeks). See Yandex meaning in Hindi.
How do you use Yandex in a sentence?
Browsing old newspapers and Yandexing court reports, we found sentences to fit each prediction.
What part of speech is Yandex?
Yandex can be a proper noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce Yandex?
Yandex is pronounced /ˈjan.dɛks/.

Words near Yandex in the dictionary

  1. Yandells
  2. yander
  3. yandere
  4. yanderes
  5. Yanderra
  6. Yandex
  7. Yandexed
  8. Yandexes
  9. Yandexing
  10. yandied
  11. yandies

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