“Search”, “Mail”, “Maps”, “Alice”, “Disk”, “Cloud”, “Market” and others. Archives do not pose a direct threat to systems, but help hackers find vulnerabilities. Leaked too revealed important ranking factors for a search enginealmost never made public.

Who leaked the data

• The author of the dump received the files in July 2022, but They were created on February 24, 2022 – The day Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine.
• The analysis shows that some archives “fully contain the modern source code of the services,” but the company itself notes that the merged version of the code does not match the existing one.
• Bleeping Computer publication, which wrote about the incidents of cyber attacks, spoke to a “Yandex” representative and once again confirmed that the company’s servers were not hacked during the hacking operation. According to that, The leak was from a former employee and is “political”. He did not try to sell the code to competitors.

What he means is not fully understood. probably about what One of the workers thus expressed his opposition to the entry of the Russian army into Ukraine.however, it is unclear how this “protest” will affect the Kremlin’s decision.

Additionally, experts who first analyzed the leak earlier said that the archives were completely cleared of user data (or not containing them in the first place) and critical information, rendering this set of files useless for any hacking attempt. company. It doesn’t even allow you to “merge” a ready-made service from it.

The company, which is openly one of the sponsors of Russian terrorism and propaganda, spreading fake news and paying billions in taxes, says it “sees no threat to user data or platform performance.”

Arrangement

Sorting refers to the order in which responses to user queries are placed. That is, which site the search engine will show you first and which ones will be extracted in the output below.

The parameters by which search engines analyze resources are often not disclosed at all or partially disclosed. SEO professionals sometimes have to really guess at certain parameters and research through trial and error to understand which distribution version of posts is most successful. This leak 1,922 ranking factor In the Yandex search algorithm, it gives an idea of ​​​​how the Yandex search engine works.

It prefers the following pages:

• It’s not very old.
• Get a lot of organic traffic (unique visitors) and less search traffic.
• Have fewer numbers and slashes in the URL.
• Have optimized code, not “hard pessimism” with “PR=0”.
• It is hosted on trusted servers.
• They are Wikipedia pages or linked from Wikipedia.
• Hosted or linked from top-level pages in the domain.
• Include keywords in the URL (up to three).

The source states that several people from Google allegedly work at Yandex; this could mean that at least some of the ranking factors are relevant to the American search engine. Researcher Alex Buraks Your job On Twitter, Yandex states that the first factor in the list of ranking factors is “PAGE_RANK”. About the underlying algorithm created by Google’s co-founders.