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| On July 25, 2013, Yandex issued a press release stating that Segalovich had died after a long illness. <ref>{{cite web|title=Yandex Announces Death of Co-Founder and CTO Ilya Segalovich|date=25 July 2013|work=Press Release|author=Yandex|url=http://company.yandex.com/press_center/press_releases/2013/2013-07-25.xml|accessdate=25 July 2013}} |
On July 25, 2013, Yandex issued a press release stating that Segalovich had died after a long illness. <ref>{{cite web|title=Yandex Announces Death of Co-Founder and CTO Ilya Segalovich|date=25 July 2013|work=Press Release|author=Yandex|url=http://company.yandex.com/press_center/press_releases/2013/2013-07-25.xml|accessdate=25 July 2013}}</ref>However, the US and Russian media are reporting that he is in a coma with no brain activity. <ref>{{cite news|title=Гендиректор "Яндекса" опроверг сообщение о смерти Ильи Сегаловича|date=25 July 2013|work=Финам|url=http://www.finam.ru/analysis/newsitem76529/|accessdate=25 July 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Yandex co-founder and chief technology officer in coma|date=25 July 2013|work=Reuters|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/25/yandex-founder-idUSL6N0FV33U20130725|accessdate=25 July 2013}}</ref> He was suffering from ]. | ||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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| Born | Ilya Valentinovich Segalovich Template:Lang-ru (1964-09-13)September 13, 1964 Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod), RSFSR, Soviet Union |
| 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 is 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.
On July 25, 2013, Yandex issued a press release stating that Segalovich had died after a long illness. However, the US and Russian media are reporting that he is in a coma with no brain activity. He was suffering from stomach cancer.
References
- Andy Atkins-Krüger, Search Engine Land. Yandex: Not Copying But Searching For Google’s Underbelly. Retrieved 2011-04-30.
- Yandex (25 July 2013). "Yandex Announces Death of Co-Founder and CTO Ilya Segalovich". Press Release. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- "Гендиректор "Яндекса" опроверг сообщение о смерти Ильи Сегаловича". Финам. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- "Yandex co-founder and chief technology officer in coma". Reuters. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2013.