Yandex is Russian search engine that is widely used in Ukraine.  Most of the search requests in Ukraine go via Yandex, not Google.

Yandex published statistics of the most popular requests according to which Ukrainian people type less purchasing requests than average Yandex user. Share of such requests is about 2% in Ukraine and almost 4% of general request flow, informs TECHNO bigmir)net.

Users from Ukrainian segment generally type research requests in two languages: Ukrainian and Russian. Amount of requests in different languages depends on geography: much more requests in Ukrainian come from West than from East of Ukraine.

On week days Ukrainians submit about 10 million requests in Yandex search. Users’ search activity decreases on week-ends and makes an average of 9,3 million requests. Ukrainian use on average three search request attempt while searching via Yandex; in 53% of requests they find what the searched for with only one request.

Majority (44%) of Yandex requests in Ukraine consisted of two or three words in autumn 2010. The longest words searched are chemical elements and various phobias. The longest word searched for was “гиппопотомомонстросесквип-педалиофобия” (phobia on pronouncing of long words).

About 1/3 of Yandex requests received form Ukrainian users are unique (typed only once a day). The most popular requests are submitted over 10 thousand times a day (they make about 7% of the general requests flow).

Almost 3% of users’ requests from Ukraine are submitted as a question (contain interrogative word); the most popular question is “how?”, the least – “Where from?”.

According to earlier formed most popular search requests rating of 2010 Ukrainians were mostly interested in President’s election, brothers Klychko (famous Ukrainian boxers) and bizarre case with wreath happened with the Ukrainian President.

Source: TECHNO bigmir)net