Employee steals search engine Yandex and tries to sell it very cheaply

Russian court to Dmitry Korobov was sentenced to two years suspended for stealing source code for Russian search engine Yandex and trying to sell them on the black market too cheaply.

Korobov, who was employed by a search engine wants to sell source code and algorithms that Yandex to finance his startup, and interestingly he requested a price of 25 dollars plus 250 thousand Russian rouble makes the total value does not exceed a lot about 28 thousand dollars only.

Fortunately the deal hasn't been where he was arrested while heading to interview a prospective buyers who connect with them through the dark Internet darknet.

The value of source code and algorithms developed by Yandex and runs the price up to around £ 10 million, and is the primary source of income search engine company Yandex Russian means if successfully sold the company will suffer significant losses.

Is search engine rank first globally but not in all markets, in the Russian market, Google in second place and has a market share of 35% as compared to the share to Yandex 57%.

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