OREANDA-NEWS. November 30, 2011. Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX) has announced a partnership with Seznam.cz, the largest web search engine and information portal in the Czech Republic with 56% search market share, according to TOPlist (November 2011). Today, Seznam.cz has launched a video search service, videa.seznam.cz, developed by Yandex.

The new video search engine is based on the Czech language, and takes into account the Czech grammatical structure. Users will also soon be able to automatically correct spelling mistakes and typos in their search queries using the service. Yandex has expanded its team to include members from the Czech Republic.

Seznam’s new service is based on the same technology as Yandex.Video, Yandex’s video search service for the Russian-speaking audience. Users can search for videos both on the Czech internet and across the entire web. Videa.seznam.cz searches on more than 200 Czech video resources and currently works directly with twelve major video hosting services, including Idnes.cz, Stream.cz and Voyo.

“Yandex and Seznam first met ten years ago and have since stayed in touch, sharing our experiences,” says Arkady Volozh, CEO of Yandex. “Our companies have a lot in common. Like Yandex, Seznam is the leader in its home market, despite the presence of major global players. We are glad that we are now not just colleagues, but partners who share technologies with each other.”

“Seznam.cz and Yandex both share the same goal of keeping the world of search diversified. We are happy that the mission of the company whose video search technology we chose out of four competing search providers was similar to ours. We also appreciate long-term partnerships and are happy that Seznam.cz together with Yandex will bring video search to Czech users,” says Pavel Zima, Chief Executive Officer of Seznam.cz.

Every day, about three million web users visit Seznam.cz. Over 5% of queries on the web portal are related to video search.