In 2024, Yandex and Google continued to develop neural networks, improved search quality, and added new tools. The main events in search engines and recommendations for 2025 are in our pre-New Year review.
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In 2024, according to Statcounter , Yandex is still the most popular search engine in Russia. The company has updated its ranking algorithms and added more opportunities for e-commerce.
In March, Yandex presented an updated version of generative neural networks — YandexGPT 3, and in October, its more advanced model — YandexGPT 4. It surpasses the previous one in terms of the quality of answers, solves complex problems better. And in relation to some types of tasks, it is almost as good as GPT-4o from OpenAI, according to the developers.
YandexGPT 4 is built into many Yandex products, including Neuro Search, which has become the main event of this year. The tool allows you to get answers directly in the search results - no need to jordan phone number material go to sites and read the entire material.
At first, Neuro was a separate service, then Yandex rolled it out to the entire search. The neural network analyzes information from the network and forms a response with links to the 5 most relevant sources, can make logical conclusions and recognize images.
Digest of Yandex and Google search updates for 2024
Neuro search in Yandex
Users liked the tool, but site owners are concerned that traffic will decrease. After all, now it is not necessary to follow a link to the source to get an answer to a question.