Yandex Crawling Hubs
I was not thoroughly certain of this, but as of... 12 minutes ago ... am positive!
Search giant Yandex.com [.ru, .au, .by, .tr included ] is crawling hubs, regularly.
After testing their webmaster tools realized 90% of my hubs, as well as profile, appear in their search results.
For those unaware, Yandex is the Eastern worlds largest search engine, with parallel ties to mail.ru, gmail comparison and owner of Vkontakte, {2nd to Badoo the Facebook of non-America} and owner of several successful micro social networks, etc. Yandex supplies refined queries to over 50M Unique Visitors per month from Slovak countries including Turkey, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine and is expanding at a rapid pace into the Baltic and Middle Eastern regions. It also contains a very nice shopping, news, video, image query option. This, to me, can only mean better news for Hubs and Hubbers, as international topics can be expanded...
I've noticed quite a few search engines visiting and wondered who they were too
cool. Thanks for the info!
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