Yandex scrapes Google and other SEO learnings from the source code leak – Search Engine Land

Yandex isn’t Google, but there is a lot SEOs can learn about how a modern search engine is built from reviewing this codebase.

“Fragments” of Yandex’s codebase leaked online last week. Much like Google, Yandex is a platform with many aspects such as email, maps, a taxi service, etc. The code leak featured chunks of all of it.

According to the documentation therein, Yandex’s codebase was folded into one large repository called Arcadia in 2013. The leaked codebase is a subset of all projects in Arcadia and we find several components in it related to the search engine in the “Kernel,” “Library,” “Robot,” “Search,” and “ExtSearch” archives.

The move is wholly unprecedented. Not since the AOL search query data of 2006 has something so material related to a web search engine entered the public domain.

Although we are missing the data and many files that are referenced, this is the first instance of a tangible look at how a modern search engine works at the code level.

Personally, I can’t…

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