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Rambler (portal)

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Type of business
  
Private

Headquarters
  
Moscow, Russia

Parent organization
  
Prof-Media

Founded
  
1996

Key people
  
Dmitry Kryukov, creator Olga Turischeva, Chief Executive Officer

Industry
  
Internet, Computer software

Subsidiaries
  
Afisha.ua, OAO Netlogic, ZAO Begun, Zao Lenta.Ru

Profiles

Rambler (Russian: Рамблер) is a Russian search engine and one of the biggest Russian web portals. It is owned by the Rambler Media Group and Prof-Media since 2006. It was launched in 1996 by Sergey Lysakov and Dmitry Kryukov as a website for Russian speakers.

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History

Rambler has been online since 1996. In 2005 the Rambler Media Group went public, and was bought by Prof-Media in 2006.

On July 18, 2008 it was announced that Google was to acquire Begun, part of Rambler Media and one of the biggest Russian contextual advertising services for $140 million, but the deal has been blocked by Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service.

The main competitors of Rambler in the Russian market are Yandex and Mail.ru.

In September 2016 it was reported that the site was breached in February 2012. LeakedSource received a dump of the user database at the time that included usernames, passwords, and ICQ instant messaging accounts for over 98 million users. It was revealed that the Rambler.ru database stored user passwords in plaintext — meaning that whoever breached the database instantly had access to the e-mail accounts of all of its users.

Services

Services offered by Rambler include web search, e-mail, news aggregation, e-commerce and other services to the Russian-speaking community globally. It is complemented by a number of other Rambler Media Group owned web properties including:

  • Lenta.ru: online Russian language newspaper
  • Doktor.ru: health and medical advice
  • Mama.ru: parenting advice
  • Ferra.ru: information about computer equipment
  • References

    Rambler (portal) Wikipedia