Digit of the day: What is Yandex's share in conversions to pirated sites?

90%

- this is the share of Yandex in conversions to pirated sites

Group-IB experts said that Yandex

This search engine accounts for 90 percent of traffic to illegal resources.

At the same time, the share of Yandex began to decline, writes Vedomosti.As of early November, the search engine's traffic to pirate sites decreased by 5% compared to 2019.

It is noted that Group-IB's statistics took into account only data from visits from computers and mobile devices.

The remaining 10% is provided by other search engines, social networks, messengers, browser add-ons, and direct transitions.Interestingly, Google only accounts for a 2 percent share of traffic.

Experts explain Yandex's high share of conversions to pirated sites by accelerating the indexing of new links in the search engine.