Netvibes, the site that lets users customize their homepages with a variety of widgets, has partnered with Rambler.ru to bring its widgets to the massive Russian web portal. Rambler is the Yahoo of Russia, with an estimated 40 million users and 3 billion monthly pageviews. The deal is being described as “multi-year” and worth “multi-millions”, but further details haven’t been disclosed. Netvibes availability on Rambler.ru is expected to begin in November.
This marks the first time Netvibes has licensed its platform for installation and distribution to an independent third party, and probably won’t be the last. In order to stay competitive with other widget hubs like iGoogle, Netvibes would do well to spur its growth by offering its widgets to other region-specific portals (that said, Netvibes has been doing well, with a reported 500 million widgets served montly). According to the press release, the Rambler homepage will include Google Search, Blinx video search, and a number of Russian services like Price.ru.
In July Google acquired Begun, a contextual ad service, from parent company Rambler. As part of the $140 million deal, Rambler has been using Google for some of its advertising and search functions.
something cool for all the Russian’s billionaires to play with to pass time while they completely dominate the forbes list.
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and you thought the cold war was over. americans are eerie about social networking or sharing there user date using a russian owned site.
They will only be accecpted in mainstream internet america when they have offices in santamonica CA.
Were waitin.
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Hello all! It`s hard to say that Rambler is a Russian Yahoo really. It is number 5 in Russia. Rambler is in slight crisis now and they have launched a huge promo online and offline to restore its vanishing audience. Seems it`s portal Mail.Ru should be compared with Yahoo from the strategy perspective. From Russia with love.
1. yandex
2. google
3. Mail.Ru and Rambler claim to 3 place. So far Mail.Ru wins.
Anyone monetising RuNet beyond showing ads should have a link from TC homepage in Heroes section, so hard it is to get a dime out of russians online.
I am not surprised that Blinx is in there – Mark Opzoomer, Rambler ceo is also a non exec at Blinx http://www.ramb...e/?id=iB6C7D017
The toolbar at clipta.com was much cooler than ramblers widgets. It searches a bunch of sites and stores the videos you watched. you can then hand pick the videos you like and upload them to your ipod.
I hear some russian guys invented this toolbar too.
Rambler dies. It is a pity …
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