The largest Russian internet-company with the most popular searchengine Yandex.ru (processing 64% of search-queries in Russia) has been listed on NASDAQ. Video: http://video.yandex.ru/users/gray7400/view/179 Shares of Yandex climbed about 40 percent in their stock: http://www.quote.com/us/stocks/quote.action?s=YNDX Obviously, the next level for them will be winning a share in the international searchengines market with their yandex.com service.
Yandex is a really good search engine even in the US the results sometimes are even better then Google.
Yeah, it recently (in the last year or so) started to make a push more internationally, so I suspect more and more people will start to see Yandex traffic in their analytics.
Yandex has one drawback - updated the search database. That is, the search database is updated once every 3-5 days, but it happens and once every two weeks. In addition, the fall in the index page, dated 3, 4, 5 days earlier.
yandex search isn't live like google - new documents and pages get to search database once 4-5 days, it's too long and sometimes russian webmasters could wait for 2 weeks to see their new pages in yandex search
A special Yandex algorithm - the fast robot allows important new pages and documents to appear in search results quickly. It indexes quickly updated websites, blogs and forums, which have an RSS.