Sometimes Yandex is described as a Google Clone and yet this introduction to the course and history presentation, demonstrates that Yandex followed a different development path in its early years, though at times coming to some of the same decisions as competing seach engines such as Google. The history looks at how Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich came to found one of the world's top 4 search engines and what enabled them to overtake the competition in Russia and also fend off Google for so long.