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| '''Ilya Valentinovich Segalovich''' (born September 13, 1964, Gorky (]), ]) – is a co-founder of Russian ] ]. He has been CTO and director of Yandex since 2000.<ref name=YandexManagement>. Yandex corporate site. Retrieved 2011-04-30.</ref> Ilya proposed the name “Yandex” for the search engine, derived from the idea of “Yet Another iNDEX”.<ref name=Underbelly>Andy Atkins-Krüger, Search Engine Land. . Retrieved 2011-04-30.</ref> | '''Ilya Valentinovich Segalovich''' (born September 13, 1964, Gorky (]), ]) – is a co-founder of Russian ] ]. He has been CTO and director of Yandex since 2000.<ref name=YandexManagement>. Yandex corporate site. Retrieved 2011-04-30.</ref> Ilya proposed the name “Yandex” for the search engine, derived from the idea of “Yet Another iNDEX”.<ref name=Underbelly>Andy Atkins-Krüger, Search Engine Land. . Retrieved 2011-04-30.</ref> | ||
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| Segalovich is a co-founder and supporter of Maria's Children Art Rehabilitation Center for orphans and children with special needs. | Segalovich is a co-founder and supporter of Maria's Children Art Rehabilitation Center for orphans and children with special needs. | ||
| He received a degree in geophysics from the S. Ordzhonikidze Moscow Geologic Exploration Institute. | He received a degree in geophysics from the S. Ordzhonikidze Moscow Geologic Exploration Institute. | ||
| Yandex Announces Death of Co-Founder and CTO Ilya Segalovich. IIya Segalovich died July 24, 2013 from cancer. | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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| Born | Ilya Valentinovich Segalovich Template:Lang-ru (1964-09-13) September 13, 1964 (age 60) Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod), RSFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | July 24, 2013 |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Occupation | Programmer |
| Known for | Co-founder of Yandex |
Ilya Valentinovich Segalovich (born September 13, 1964, Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod), RSFSR) – is a co-founder of Russian search engine Yandex. He has been CTO and director of Yandex since 2000. Ilya proposed the name “Yandex” for the search engine, derived from the idea of “Yet Another iNDEX”.
He began his career working on information retrieval technologies in 1990 at Arkadia Company that has been founded by his schoolmate Arkady Volozh. Segalovich headed Arkadia’s software team. From 1993 to 2000, Ilya Segalovich led the retrieval systems department for CompTek International. He left CompTek for Yandex in 2000.
Segalovich is a co-founder and supporter of Maria's Children Art Rehabilitation Center for orphans and children with special needs. He received a degree in geophysics from the S. Ordzhonikidze Moscow Geologic Exploration Institute.
Yandex Announces Death of Co-Founder and CTO Ilya Segalovich. IIya Segalovich died July 24, 2013 from cancer.
References
- Management team. Yandex corporate site. Retrieved 2011-04-30.
- Andy Atkins-Krüger, Search Engine Land. Yandex: Not Copying But Searching For Google’s Underbelly. Retrieved 2011-04-30.