Yandex Announces Yandex.Q

As part of the Vega update, Yandex introduced Yandex.Q, a new question-and-answer service.

Yandex.Q makes use of the Yandex.Experts tool, which was introduced in the 2018 Andromeda update, and TheQuestion, a Q&A forum acquired by Yandex in early 2019 to form the new service.

Yandex.Q contains more than one million questions and answers from a gamut of subject matter experts. Users will type questions as normal in the Yandex.ru search bar, and Q answers will appear at the top of search results (akin to featured snippets in Google). The example given by Yandex in the Vega blog post is:

For example, someone looking for information on Alexander Pushkin can see answers from a literary critic, or a search on the behaviors of seals will result in a response from the head of the National Arctic and Antarctic Museum.

Dan Taylor
Dan Taylor is an experienced SEO consultant and has worked with brands and companies on optimizing for Russia (and Yandex) for a number of years. Winner of the inaugural 2018 TechSEO Boost competition, webmaster at HreflangChecker.com and Sloth.Cloud, and founder of RussianSearchNews.com.