Yandex Accused of Anti-competitive Practices in Russia
https://www.searchenginejournal.comFederal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) issued a one month warning to Yandex to stop showing preference to its own sites. Yandex responded that it is serving users and that the complaining companies themselves exclude Yandex on their platforms.
The FAS accused Yandex of monopolistic practices in their search engine by giving preference to their own Internet properties. They are accused of using an interactive widget area to funnel users to their own sites and not giving competitors the opportunity to show up in the interactive sections.
The interactive widget area shows up after the PPC advertising but before the traditional ten blue links.
