Yandex denies information about the development of a dating service – Kommersant
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Yandex (MOEX: YNDX) is not developing and does not plan to release a dating service or application. Kommersant was informed about this by the company’s press service. Earlier, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on the development of an application for online dating.
According to Vedomosti, the Yandex online dating application has the working name “Yandex Match”. It will match the user with a partner based on matching interests.
As the newspaper discovered, work proposals for UX/UI designers to create a design for the Yandex Match service appeared on the Habr, Figma, Behance and VKontakte resources. The newspaper wrote that the first test tasks for the development of mobile and desktop versions appeared in the summer of 2023.
Previously popular online dating apps such as Tinder and Bumble have become unavailable in Russia. Tinder officially left Russia on June 30, 2023, and Bumble back in March 2022. After this, domestic analogues of services began to gain popularity. How told “Kommersant FM” in the Mamba company, the service’s audience in 2023 increased by 20% compared to 2022. After success on the Russian market, domestic analogues of dating services moved on to development in the CIS and friendly countries. Among them are Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Türkiye.
Read more about how Russian dating services are developing abroad in the Kommersant publication. “Love within friendly boundaries”.
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