"Yandex" explained why deleted from the search results of the official site Telegram

Following Sputnik and Mail.ru Search, the Yandex search system also removed the official Telegram website (telegram.org) from the search results. When requesting [Telegram] in Yandex, there is no link to the official site of the messenger. In the first place in the search results appears tlgrm.ru.

The site was removed only from the Russian version of the search for Russian users, but remained on yandex.com.

On the first day after being removed from the issue, the press service of Yandex explained the incident: “Apparently, the link has been added to the Roskomnadzor registry. Synchronization with the registry occurs automatically. “Yandex” removes links as new data is received, ”RIA Novosti was told in the Yandex press service.

At the same time, Yandex continues to display links to twitter.com/telegram, as well as my.telegram.org, web-telegram.ru and other resources related to the banned instant messenger.

Telegram was blocked in Russia on April 13, 2018 by the decision of the Tagansky court of Moscow at the request of Roskomnadzor. During the time of blocking, the Russian audience of the messenger has grown significantlycompared with March, although not yet reached the April level.



Google search results do not filter anything and when searching for Telegram, the official site comes first. Recently, the company paid a fine of 500 thousand rubles. for non-compliance with Russian content filtering requirements. After trying to comply with similar Chinese censorship, Google employees launched a protest and forced the company to abandon such plans .