Ilya Walentinowitsch Segalowitsch

Ilya Segalovich

Ilya Walentinowitsch Segalowitsch ( Russian Илья Валентинович Сегалович ; born September 13, 1964 in Gorki ; † July 27, 2013 in London ) was a Russian computer scientist and entrepreneur .

Together with Arkadi Wolosch and Jelena Kolmanowskaja, he founded the Internet company Yandex , which is now the market leader in Russia in the field of Internet search. From 2000 to 2013 he was its CTO .

life and career

Ilya Segalowitsch was born in Gorki (now Nizhny Novgorod ) in 1964 . From 1981 to 1986 he studied geophysics in Moscow .

After completing his studies, Segalowitsch began working for the IT company "Arkadia" in 1990. In 1993 he founded the company CompTek with his school friend Arkadi Wolosch , where Segalowitsch developed the electronic data retrieval system. At CompTek , the Internet search engine Yandex was finally created in 1997, a year before Google . After this quickly gained popularity, Segalowitsch and Wolosch finally founded the independent company Yandex in 2000 . Within a few years, Yandex became the market leader in Russia and a multi-billion dollar company. Segalowitsch remained the company's technical director until his death and was responsible for the introduction of numerous new Yandex products.

The brand name Yandex is said to have been suggested by Segalowitsch.

In July 2013 Ilya Segalowitsch died in a hospital in London . The cause of death was meningitis caused by a long-standing cancer. He left his wife Marija and four children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://searchengineland.com/yandex-not-copying-but-searching-for-googles-underbelly-71282
2. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/29/yandex-co-founder-ilya-segalovich-dies
3. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23483138
4. ↑ http://searchengineland.com/yandex-not-copying-but-searching-for-googles-underbelly-71282
5. ↑ http://de.ria.ru/society/20130725/266547152.html
6. ↑ http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/ilya-segalovich-yandex-mitgruender-tot