dub3 card · www.yandex.ru
Yandex (1997)
Yet Another iNDEXer: a Russian search engine that knows every ending of every word.
- Cost
- 5 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Epic
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Megacorps
What it does
On reveal: If you already have another Search card here, +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 5 RAM to play and brings 8 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.
The site, in 1997
Russia's home-grown search engine, whose name stands for 'Yet Another iNDEXer' and puns on 'ya', Russian for 'I'.
Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich had been building software to search Russian text since 1990, so a search for one form of a word finds all its forms. In January 2015 it handled 51.2% of Russia's search traffic.
In 1997: Launched on 23 September and shown at the Softool exhibition in Moscow; that year its search also went into the Russian Internet Explorer 4.0.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Megacorps: The giants. You've used most of them today.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1997 page.
Put it on your site
Run Yandex, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1997. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1997, then plays a short scene. Want Yandex in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
