Rambler contacts. Rambler mail - Enter the mailbox. Mail rambler: login to your personal account

Rambler- in the past, a domestic postal search system, which has turned into a media-service portal for entry, which is popular with Russian users. Among its services there is also a free postal service, which today provides various useful functions and ensures reliable protection of information from hacking.

Rambler mail login

In order to use the capabilities of the service, you need to enter the rambler's mail to register, that is, create an account, for which:

In the search bar of the browser (web browser), type the address and press Enter;
On the page that opens, carefully fill in all the fields with the data necessary for registration (name and surname, year of birth, login and password, mobile phone number, addresses, etc.);
After entering all the data, the user goes to the mail page with standard settings that each user can change;

Password recovery from Rambler mail

Configure a way to restore access in case of loss login / password from mail rambler, for which you need to select one of the control questions and answer it. The second way will be to receive a code to the specified mobile phone number and enter it. There is also a button "Delete mailbox", which you can use to stop working on this service. After entering their page, the user will be prompted to upload a photo or avatar. This completes the registration. To enter the service, you must enter the login and password assigned during registration, and in order to subsequently log in automatically, by checking the box, you must activate the "Remember" button. Login is possible through popular social networks, if they have an account. It is recommended to avoid this possibility, preferring a more reliable and proven method using a personal username and password.

Mail registration rambler

If this data is lost, then in order to register mail on the rambler and restore access, you should perform the following actions (after a message appears about the incorrect login / password):

Press the "Restore" button, after which you will go to the next page;
Enter the name of your personal mailbox and captcha (computer test, code) into the appropriate windows, then press the "Next" button;
The mobile phone, the number of which was specified during registration, will receive an SMS message with a code that must be dialed in the appropriate field;
Next, you will be prompted to create and confirm a new password;

If the phone number was not specified during registration, then for data recovery you will need an answer to the security question specified during registration. After these steps, you will be prompted to enter the user page using a new password, which will allow you to work with received letters and respond to them. If the service was not initially configured accordingly, the user's attention will be distracted by "unobtrusive" advertisements. Install a filter to block it. Smartphones and tablets are suitable for using mail, thanks to the mobile version of the service. To configure it, you need to go to a separate section and act in accordance with the information available there.

Media portal Rambler.ru enjoys immense popularity both in Russia and in other CIS countries. Due to the fact that all kinds of sections and services are combined here on one page, it is absolutely easy to use Rambler and it is quite accessible even for people who are not versed in the world of computer technology and the IT industry. Today we will talk about such a simple procedure as Rambler mail setup, namely, how to create a mailbox on the service, how to work with it, how to create letters and reply to emails, etc.

The Rambler portal is located at rambler.ru. Here you can find both news and the latest developments in the field of finance, real estate or travel. In addition, on Rambler, you can view thematic videos in a streaming service, a horoscope, a weather forecast, an online radio, a TV program, a TOP-100 directory of web resources, where you can familiarize yourself with the best sites on any topic, and a lot of other stuff. All this is available right on the portal home page. But we will only touch upon the work with mail, since each of the sections of the portal requires special attention and time.

To enter the postal service, go to Rambler home page and click on the "Mail" menu button, or go to this link.

We are presented with a login form for the Rambler mail service. Right here, by entering the appropriate values for the mailbox name and password, you can enter the mail and start working with it right there. If you do not have a mailbox, we suggest registering first.

Registration on Rambler

On the mail login form, click the "Register" button below. This will start the process of creating a new rambler mailbox on the service.

You can get access to any of Rambler services either through the account of any social network (VK, Facebook, Odnoklassniki, Mail.ru, Google, Twitter, etc.), or through the account of Rambler itself. When you enter the service through a social network account, you thereby bind the social account login to the Rambler & Co service. The login procedure is a little faster, but there are doubts about the safety of this procedure. After all, the login data to Rambler will be stored on the server of the social network, and if the authentication means fall into third-party hands, the security of the login data to Rambler will also be a big question. Therefore, in the old fashioned way, we will resort to the method of creating a regular Rambler & Co account, specifying a username and password to enter the mail. By the way, after completing the registration procedure, using the same credentials, you can easily access any other Rambler service, which is very convenient, since it will save you from the need for multiple registrations. So, we register. To do this, enter the required data in the appropriate fields, namely: name, surname, login, preferred domain, password, date of birth, gender and mobile phone. You will have to enter the correct phone number, because during registration, an SMS message with confirmation of registration is sent to the specified number.

When a valid phone number is entered, click the "Send code" button on the right and wait for an SMS with a password.

The message will contain a confirmation number.

Enter it in the "SMS confirmation code" field and click the "Register" button.

If everything is done correctly, a small green text field appears on the screen with the inscription: "The user is registered", after which you will immediately be taken to your personal profile page.

Now you can go to your mailbox and work with e-mail. By the way, after registration, your first confirmation letter should be sent to the e-mail. You can read it directly on the server. Let's open the mailbox by clicking on the "Mail" button in the top menu, or by selecting the "Mail" button on the left side of the workspace.

We get to the Rambler Mail server. By default, the Inbox folder opens. As you can see, there is one unread letter in it. Open it by selecting a message from the list.

The message opens literally instantly. Let's get acquainted with its content. The initial Rambler mail setup is now complete.

How to write a new letter in Rambler mail?

So, let's get down to working with the service itself. The first question that arises among the vast majority of users is how to create a new letter? The answer is simple - for this, use the "Write" button in the upper left corner of the main form of the Rambler mail service. Click on it.

We are presented with a standard form for creating a new email message. In the "To" field, enter the name of the recipient's email address. In the "Subject" field, set the message context, i.e. subject, which our letter is devoted to. Finally, in the central text block, we enter the body of the letter, write the very essence of our message.

How do I add an attachment to an email?

As we all know, you can add attachments to a letter: pictures, videos, music and any other interactive content. To make an attachment, click the "Attach File" button located under the "Subject" field.

After that, you just need to specify the path to the attached file and click the "Open" button, which will serve as confirmation of your choice.

After completing all the specified steps to set up Rambler mail, the attachment will be added.

To remove an attachment, click the Remove button to the right of the attached file name.

How to issue a letter in Rambler mail?

To design messages in Rambler, there is a whole panel with which you can change the font, set its size, highlight a fragment in italics or bold, align or add a numbered / unnumbered list or emoticon. It should be said that such panels are present in all email services without exception, but in Rambler it is especially convenient and practical.

All actions performed using the design panel are intuitive and incredibly simple. With it, you can add grace and creativity to your writing.

How do I reply to a letter?

If you received an email, there is a logical desire to write a response (unless the letter was sent by one of the robots, and such a letter does not require a response). It's easy to reply to a message. We scroll with the mouse to the very bottom of the message, and find the "Reply" button under the body of the message. If you received an email from a group of respondents, you can send a response to all of them at once by selecting the "Reply to all" option.

Click on one of these buttons.

A subform appears asking you to enter the content of your response. When the response letter is written, click the "Send" graphic button with an arrow located at the top.

Nearby is the Send to All button. If there is only one recipient, it is inactive. If you have previously selected the "Reply to all" option, you can use it as an alternative.

How to forward a letter to another recipient (forward)?

How to change the password on Rambler mailbox?

Sometimes it becomes necessary to change the account password to a more suitable one. This can be your own decision if you become concerned about the security of your work information, or you find out that your account has been hacked and your correspondence has fallen into third-party hands. The developers themselves strongly recommend making passwords secure, including service characters, and their length must be 12-16 characters, at least. We subscribe to these recommendations. But suppose the mailbox is not hacked, and you simply want to change the password in advance to prevent potential hacking in the future. How to do it?

We log into our account, as usual, by entering the name of the Rambler account and the password to it.

If the login was successful, go to your account settings, and select the "Password" item.

To the right of it is the "Change" button - let's use it.

A standard form for changing the password opens. Here we are offered to enter a valid password, come up with a new one and confirm it, as well as enter symbols from the pattern key (captcha). Let's heed this advice. When everything is ready, click the "Save" button.

This completes the Rambler mail setup, and you can work with the mail service in normal mode again.

How to change your password if you cannot access your Rambler mailbox?

Sometimes, as a result of a hacked mail account, it is not possible to log into your mailbox. This can also happen if you simply forgot your password and cannot remember it. How then to be? Let's use the password recovery procedure.

We go to the mailbox login form, write its name in the appropriate field, select the required domain, and click the "Remember password" button below.

We get to the recovery form. As a first step, we will enter the exact name of the mailbox and the security pattern. Click "Next".

On the next form, we will enter our current phone number and a new invented password. When everything is ready, click the "Send code" button.

After a few seconds, a confirmation code for the operation you have selected should come to your phone. Paste it from SMS into the appropriate field and click the "Save" button.

Everything is now ready - the password has been changed.

Now a few words about client settings (where can we go without them). Although the number of Rambler mail settings is not striking in its variety and assortment, at worst the parameters should be enough to make working with a client more pleasant and relaxed. All settings are hidden behind a button with a gear in the lower right corner of the folder selection panel.

On the main tab, you can set a personalized name for correspondence sent from Rambler. If you use an alias, you can enter it here and the recipient will see your alias in the "From" field. You can also specify another mailbox to which you want to receive replies to outgoing messages. It can be not only a mailbox on Rambler, but also on Gmail, Yandex Mail, Outlook or any other mail server. Read below how to attach mailboxes of other services to Rambler.

In the signature field, you can also specify a message that will be automatically displayed at the end of each letter if you want to finish the text concisely and respectably.

Below you can activate or deactivate hotkeys (you can familiarize yourself with a set of prepared hotcases here). A proven fact: if you get used to working with the keyboard, then all operations will be performed much faster and more accurately. Therefore, if you work a lot with mail, hotkeys will come in handy.

On the right side of the first tab, you can change the client's color canvas to a more preferable one. You can choose from about a dozen of all kinds of colorings for every taste: from pastel colors to azure and marble.

Here you can also see how much mailbox is used and how much space is still free. By the way, the maximum volume of the Rambler mailbox is 2 GB. Before the client interface was changed in 2012, the mailbox size could be increased manually, but with the rebranding, this option disappeared, and the maximum mailbox size began to strictly correspond to 2 gigs. Now, if the volume of your correspondence is approaching the maximum, you should worry in advance about the timely cleaning of the mailbox, otherwise the mail will simply stop arriving.

On the next tab "Folders" you can manage directories, both present in the client by default, and new ones added manually. If the folders already present in the system are not enough for you, it is quite possible to add a few more just on this tab.

The next tab is responsible for adding other mailboxes to the service. In fact. you can connect the mailbox of any other service to Rambler. All you need to know is the address of the IMAP / POP3 server to receive mail, as well as the port number for it (in other words, the gateway). You can get this information on the support page of the service you want to use, you have to dig a little in the reference manual.

The next section of settings is filter tuning. Thanks to its flexibility and ease of use, you can easily add selected categories of messages to spam, mark them as read, or delete them altogether. To prevent the box from getting overcrowded, it is worth fiddling with the filter settings a little, and you will save yourself a headache in the future. Very user-friendly interface and the filtering mechanism itself.

Another section is associated with setting up an answering machine. If you are going on vacation or want to take time off from work, compose an auto-sent email with the specified subject and content. This will not mislead your manager about your absence and will help maintain working connections and good relationships with colleagues.

The next option, located in the "Mail programs" category, gives you access to the Rambler service for other mail applications (The Bat !, Thunderbird, Outlook, etc.). Here are all the necessary settings that need to be specified in a third-party mail client to access mail on Rambler. If you want to use one of the third-party email access applications, check the "I want to access" box at the top.

The last section of the settings will allow you to use sound alerts for the most frequent actions in the application, namely, receiving a new letter, sending it and when a crash occurs. The sounds are all standard, you cannot change them. You can only disable or enable each individual alert on an individual basis, which in fact makes our already meager choice quite minimalistic.

The address book

It's time to tell a little about the "Contacts" function. Rambler has an address book where you can add your addressees so that you always have a database of addresses with which you often contact. To access your contacts, click the icon with a little man to the right of the button for writing a new letter.

Here are collected all the email addresses with which you corresponded in Rambler. Contacts that have taken place, but which you have not entered into the address book manually, fall into the "Automatic" section. The rest of the addressees are entered into the "Your contacts" category. To add a contact to the list, click the "New contact" button.

You can also import addresses from several mail services into the Rambler address book: Yandex, Mail.ru and Qip.ru. This minimizes the time spent manually adding addresses.

Spam filtering

The Rambler client has an anti-spam function. Although it does not work very efficiently, the developers periodically pull new addresses to the blacklist database, which helps the service to filter. Also, if you yourself want to mark one of the letters as spam, you can easily move it to the corresponding folder using the top menu.

In addition, you can mark the letter as unclaimed and without moving, as a result of which the sender's address will be added to the spammers list after verification.

To sort messages by a specified criterion, you need to click on the column heading and select the sort order: ascending or descending. The sorting mechanism is quite flexible, and allows you to easily handle a large volume of correspondence without any difficulties.

Rambler-mail - mobile version

The official page of the application in the Google Play store - link.

Official page of the application in the App store - link.

In fact, the mobile program completely repeats the capabilities and functions of its PC counterpart. Registration is available here, and entrance through any of the presented social networks, and many other bright and necessary chips. However, the interface is a bit sparse. It would be possible to give it more liveliness and bright colors, but this is for your taste. Perhaps conservatism and a strictly businesslike approach are valued by developers more than style and a sense of novelty.

We install the program like any other mobile application (it is practically called “Mail rambler.ru”)

Logging into the mail is carried out simply and quickly by entering your username and password in the specially designated fields and pressing the "Login" button.

As a result of the performed manipulations, we find ourselves in the Inbox folder. All messages we received are displayed here. In the upper right corner there is a search button, which will probably come in handy if you need to find something by a contextual query.

To go to another folder, click on the button with three horizontal lines in the upper left row of the header.

Navigating through folders is easy and completely intuitive.

To write a new letter in the mobile version of Rambler Mail, click on the round blue pencil icon at the bottom right of the display.

Then everything is as usual: we enter the recipient's address, indicate in the “Copy” field the possible addressee whom you want to add to the list of recipients, come up with a subject and compose the text of the letter itself. By the way, in the "To" field, you can pull up the addressee from the list of contacts of your phone using the "plus sign" button - a very convenient and relevant feature. Next, we can attach attachments or send a ready-made letter by clicking the button specially designed for this.

It is not difficult to understand all the abilities of the mobile version of Rambler Mail - they are all visible at a glance. The interface in the program is very simple and unpretentious.

That's all we wanted to tell you about such an interesting topic as setting up Rambler mail. A little later we will publish detailed instructions on how to work with Yandex mail. The possibilities are very similar there, but there are also some nuances.

Having appeared in 1996, it quickly gained immense popularity and remained a leading player in the Russian search market until 2011. Rambler has launched the first rating-classifier in Runet (Rambler Top100), the first Internet portal, the first among domestic Internet companies to enter the stock exchange.

In 2012, the philosophy of the portal was completely rethought - Rambler became a media portal for personalized news.

Rambler has won the Runet Prize four times.

As of July 2013, Rambler was ranked 11th in popularity among Russian websites (according to other sources - 9th). The monthly audience of Rambler in 2015 is 26 million people.

On April 5, 2016 Rambler got a new logo - "/" (forward slash). This is one of the basic symbols of the Internet address, which emphasizes that Rambler was at the origins of the Runet and has always been and will be associated with the Internet and technologies. Slash defines the Rambler strategy as a single platform that helps in solving all basic desires and needs of a person.

Story

Stack company (1991-1996)

Among the first projects of the company is the laying of an IP channel from Pushchino to a computer network. It was the first connected to the Internet channel in Russia that went outside the capital. Subsequently, the company launched its own ftp, mail and www servers. In 1995, Stack Company launched one of the country's first websites.

In order to provide scientists with quality information, Stack has created a free network with tens of thousands of documents. This became an important help in the early 1990s, when scientific journals from abroad stopped sending in due to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In 1994, the Stack Company team decided to create a search engine.

Rambler

The decision to create its own search engine was made in view of the fact that foreign search engines often did not perceive the Cyrillic alphabet and Internet pages with several encodings poorly, and the indexing depth of the Runet pages was also low.

The core of the search engine was written in a few months in 1996 by Dmitry Kryukov. He also gave him the name Rambler (translated from English - "wanderer", "tramp", "loitering man") - an allusion to a search robot "roaming" the network. The Rambler logo also belonged to Kryukov. The work on the creation of the search engine was financed from the internal resources of the Stack company and was extremely time consuming:

Oh, I won't wish it on anyone, if someone wants to create something like this, I will say: think three or four times before doing. Firstly, it is really a very time-consuming business. I work from 10 in the morning until two or three. Now it is already easier, but you need to be aware that writing does not end there ...
From an interview with Planet Internet magazine, October 1997

It was a strategically important and far-sighted step of the company at that time, since the number of Internet resources of the Russian Internet at that time reached only 30-50 sites.

Popularity of Internet resources Runet (1999, Q3)
		%
1. Rambler	24.3 %
2. Altavista	16.2 %
3. Anekdot.ru	15.1 %
4. Yandex	14.5 %
5. Yahoo!	13.6 %
6. Freeware.ru	13.0 %
7. Mail.ru	10.2 %
... 10. Aport.ru	8.2 %
(copy).

In the very first year of its existence, Rambler became the undisputed market leader. At the same time, Rambler was not the first search engine in the Russian segment of the network - in December 1995, Altavista appeared, in February 1996, Aport was announced; Yandex came out a year later, on September 23, 1997.

In 1999, www.rambler.ru was recognized as the best website created by a Russian company according to the International Computer Club (ICC).

The growing popularity of the service prompted the opening of a Moscow office, which was located at one time in the hotel room "Orlyonok".

Media Portal

In early 1999, a controlling stake (53%) of Rambler was sold by Stack to the investment companies Russian Funds and Orion Capital Advisors. On January 26, 2000, the consortium that emerged in this way received the ownership of the Rambler, Top100, iXBT trademarks. On June 27, 2000, Rambler Internet Holding was registered. According to the recollections of witnesses of the events, this step became fatal for Rambler. As a result, the founders of the company were relegated to the background, and the leadership was left to the mercy of people far from the industry. The company began to be pursued by frequent changes in management and team, loss of strategy.

At the end of 2000, a conflict occurred between the founders of Rambler and the investors, which ended with the departure of the first (among them were Dmitry Kryukov and Sergey Lysakov). Since then, the Stack company and the search engine it created have lived a separate life. The founders sold their block of shares to FMCG (First Mercantile Capital Group). According to the memoirs of Anton Nosik, who was then president of Rambler:

Since then, Rambler began to turn into a large web portal, focusing, among other things, on the American Yahoo! ... However, he began to lose the technological race to competitors.

year 2000

By this time, the search engine was outdated. The fact is that until the end of 1999, only one person supported the search engine - Dmitry Kryukov. There was no search by numbers, no morphology, no link to the catalog, which made the product unfavorably different from local competitors - Yandex and Aporta.

Therefore, from the summer to December 2000, a new search engine was being developed, which was presented at the Russian Internet Forum the following year.

Although it should be noted that in 2000 Rambler was still the most popular search engine on the Russian Internet. As of the summer of 2000, the project accounted for 47.4% of the Internet audience.

In August 2000, e-mail (Mail.Rambler.ru) appeared, which has been working since June 23 in test mode. This year, the following services also appeared: information and legal resource "Rambler-Law", "Dictionaries" (electronic versions of dictionaries), "Rambler-Career" (job search service), FreeNet (free Internet access service), "Photoreport" and "Maps on Rambler". In November, a search on Russian ftp-servers appeared.

In September, the design and structure of the site underwent a significant update, taking into account the concept of a "horizontal portal".

Overseas projects were launched for Germany and Bulgaria. The German project (www.rambler.de) had a search and a rating system and was created for Russian-speaking residents of Germany (about 3 million people), with content in Russian. The Rambler-Bulgaria project (www.rambler.bg), opened on October 9, 2000, on the other hand, was aimed exclusively at local topics, with an interface, content and counter in Bulgarian and indexing of Bulgarian resources. The Bulgarian version was created with the aim of testing the probable mass cloning of Rambler abroad; 12 days before the opening of the portal, the Rambler leadership, consisting of Dmitry Kryukov, Oleg Bartunov, Ivan Panchenko and Evgeny Rodichev, arrived in Bulgaria.

The company took part in 10 “What? Where? When? »2000 for the purpose of advertising the brand after abandoning direct advertising campaigns in the spring of the same year. Since August 27, along with connoisseurs and TV viewers, a team of Internet users (or simply an Internet team) has become involved in the games. To participate, it was only necessary to register on the Rambler website (igra.rambler.ru - today this is a redirect to the Rambler game service); the computer randomly selected a thousand people from the registered ones. The question was asked at the same time to experts and the Rambler team, and in a minute the portal gave out the most frequently encountered answer from users. The connoisseur game was a hugely successful publicity stunt and resulted in a spike in traffic and an increase in registrations. Here is how Igor Ashmanov describes what was happening:

According to the initial idea, the Portal was supposed to appear in this game as a kind of World Mind, united by the intellect of millions, another participant who guesses the answers almost better than the living participants-erudites. It was a good idea and, perhaps, the Portal's most successful marketing project.
Igor Ashmanov, Life inside a bubble

On the whole, by the end of 2000, Rambler remained the most popular website and Internet brand in Russia.

year 2001

2nd portal logo

However, despite the launch of a new version of the search engine by Rambler, in 2001 Yandex took over the leadership in Runet; "Aport" began to drop out of the search race. In the spring of 2001, there were rumors about a possible merger of Rambler and Yandex. According to Anton Nosik, then CEO of Rambler, "We are considering the prospect of merging, and very seriously." Also in May 2001, rumors began to appear that Rambler allegedly planned to abandon its search engine and lease the search engine to the American company Google. Subsequently, both those and other rumors were denied.

Among the launched projects:

In late 2001 - early 2002, the Bulgarian (had 15 thousand users) and German divisions of Rambler were closed.

In the summer of 2001, the Russian Funds + Orion Capital group retired from management; they were replaced by FMCG (First Mercantile Capital Group).

2002 year

In early 2002, the company moved from the Science Park of Moscow State University to the production premises of the Dynamo plant, in the so-called Silicon settlement.

The server park was modernized, which made it possible to significantly improve the search system. A new search algorithm was introduced, the page popularity coefficient was changed, the indexing system was changed, and the search robot was improved.

The projects Ferra (a joint portal of Rambler and Computers), the tourist service Rambler-Travel, and Hosted Search (a search system for the resources of Mail.ru) have been launched.

2003 year

In 2003 Rambler is still one of the most popular brands and the most visited and popular sites, far ahead of Mail.Ru and second only to Yandex.

On January 1, 2003, the company launched its own educational and entertainment television channel Rambler Teleset. The project invested $ 46 million over five years.

Were launched: "Rambler-Real Estate", Radio Rambler and AudioDigest (allows you to listen to materials from the world's largest radio stations), search through archives of mailing lists of FreeBSD OS. The design of the portal has undergone an update.

In the fall, for its birthday (September 26), Rambler prepared a list of the most popular sites "Top100: The Best of the Best". The Rambler Future Music Fest in St. Petersburg was also timed to coincide with the date.

2004 year

In 2004, an interactive video hosting site Rambler Vision was opened, the services "Rambler Mailings" and "Rambler-announcements" (including dating) appeared, mail and Top100 were updated.

The Mobile Rambler service has appeared - the first full-fledged portal for mobile phones in Russia.

The Rambler Vision and Rambler Mobile projects won the Russian Internet National Prize in the Internet Innovation category. The company itself also received an award in the "Free Runet Service" category.

2005 year

The company acquires 25% of the Begun contextual advertising service.

According to firm research Arton Consulting, the search engine "Rambler" has the highest quality audience in the Russian Internet, the greatest depth of viewing and confidently takes the second place after Yandex, significantly ahead of other competitors.

The design of the portal has been updated. The blog service "Rambler-Planet" (integrated with other services of the company - Photo, Vision and Groups) and the online hypermarket "Rambler Shop" were opened. In September it became known that Rambler is becoming the exclusive distributor of ICQ in Russia. The Rambler-ICQ service was launched - a Russified version of the fifth generation ICQ with additional services - IP telephony, radio and video calls.

In the summer of 2005, Rambler was the first Russian Internet company to conduct an initial public offering (IPO) on an alternative site on the London Stock Exchange. The company managed to raise $ 40 million, and the total cost of Rambler was estimated at $ 153.5 million. The proceeds will go towards acquiring multimedia, communications, e-commerce and entertainment companies.

2006 year

The services "Rambler FIFA 2006", "Rambler-New York" (a project about the life of Russian-speaking Americans), the Rambler-IVR voice portal appeared. Mail has a new interface.

Rambler Media managed to acquire: 51% of Price Express (which gave control over Price.ru, Domoteka.Ru and Tyndex.Ru.), 26% of Chess Planet, 51% of Damochka.ru and 51% of the banner exchange service BannerBank. Search technology was also acquired from Fast Search & Transfer. On October 30, 48.8% of Rambler Media shares were purchased by the ProfMedia holding.

In autumn 2006, the company celebrated the 10th anniversary of the creation of the search engine. At the solemn press conference, the concept of the portal and the strategy for further development for 10 years ahead were announced.

2007 year

In February 2007, the textbook "The Internet is Easy" was published, written by Leonid Kaganov and Alex Young, commissioned by Rambler.

Opened: a mail search service for people, Rambler-Finance, a service for printing and delivering photos via the Internet. The mobile portal, Rambler-Real Estate, Rambler's Top100 and Rambler-Games were updated. The search engine experienced updates in August and September, leading some experts to say that Rambler is taking over the market again. "

The management of the company has changed. The rearrangements were made by the new owner of the company, ProfMedia, who bought Rambler in October 2006. As a result, Mark Opzumer, who worked with the Managing Director and Vice President of the European office of Yahoo! from July 2001 to December 2003.

In the summer of 2007 Rambler increased its share in the contextual advertising service Begun to 50.1% of the shares.

As of April 2007, the capitalization of Rambler Media reached $ 840 million.

2008 year

In early February, Rambler announced the implementation of a new strategy. As a result of its implementation, the portal has undergone a significant update in the style of "newspaper layout" with a large number of news blocks and illustrations. A new version of the search has been released with the so-called structured search, where "search results for relevant verticals: links to reviews (both in the press and in blogs), prices, articles from Wikipedia and news." The total cost of developing the new search engine was $ 25 million over several years.

The Rambler-Kinozal project was launched - a site for a free licensed video with advertising, created in partnership with Starmedia, TNT, the Craze music library and others. At the time of launch, the site had 750 hours of video, mostly Russian TV series, reality shows, music and TV programs. In July, it became known about the launch of the Rambler-Friends project, which collects in a single feed and allows you to follow friends' updates on social networks. The search service for "Begun" has been released.

Google announced the conclusion of an agreement with Rambler, according to which the American company will deliver search on the main page of the Russian portal. As a result, Russia would lose its oldest search technology, and Google would become Yandex's main and only competitor in the search market. Also in the summer of 2008, information was leaked about the purchase of the Begun by the American giant for $ 140 million. However, the deal was subsequently blocked by the Antimonopoly Service of Russia.

year 2009

Appeared:

The number of visitors reached 38.6 million people.

In the fall, the ProfMedia holding increased its stake in Rambler Media to 88%.

2010 year

The map service has been updated. The number of mail domains has been expanded: now, along with rambler.ru, users can choose one of the addresses lenta.ru, myrambler.ru, autorambler.ru, ro.ru, r0.ru. Now you can pay for the portal's paid services with cards.

Rambler Media was completely bought out by Vladimir Potanin's "ProfMedia" holding. In the summer, it became known about the merger of Rambler and Publishing House Afisha within the ProfMedia holding.

2011

Rambler entered into an agreement with Yandex on the use of its search engine and connection to the YAN - Yandex Advertising Network. Moreover, both Yandex.Direct and Runner ads will be shown in the search results.

Nichrome proprietary web browser has been released. The services "Rambler-Contacts", "Rambler-Avia" were launched.

The Rambler-Cards service received the most detailed detail in comparison with competitors (

). Rambler in 2011 finally became an ordinary ordinary portal(albeit with a multimillion audience) and their search is now carried out with the help of the once sworn "friend" of Yandex. You can see for yourself that their search results are identical for the same queries.

But nevertheless, I consider it reasonable to write a small essay on the formation, development and slow death of this very first search engine in the Russian Internet (Rambler was born a year earlier than Yandex and Google, when the number of sites in the Russian-speaking segment of the network was measured in only hundreds).

The Rambler search engine is no longer such

In the summer of 2011, an agreement was concluded between Yandex and our hero, according to which the search on this mega-portal will henceforth be carried out by means of the Runet mirror. A little earlier, the option of using Google search was considered, but the compatriot was able to make a better offer (he could not lose after losing his partnership with).

An important aspect of the treaty was the division of zones of influence between the systems and the Runner. Initially, there were three main players in the context market in Runet: Direct, Google Adwords and Begun. Each of them took the main share of the profit precisely in the results of their search engines.

The runner was already not so sweet, because his donor Rambler was losing its share of the search market with noticeable regularity. Although he really had nowhere to go, since the controlling stake in the Context Runner belonged to Rambler.

Well, here, after Yandex came, he had to tighten his belt even tighter - his contextual advertising blocks were taken to the periphery of Rambler search results (shown on the right), leaving the most profitable places to a competitor in the person of Direct:

Of course, in addition to the Rambler search results, the context from the Runner is shown on a number of large portals, as well as in the network of partners, but its market share is steadily declining.

And the quality of advertisers in this system leaves much to be desired, so not many webmasters seek to cooperate with the Runner (the earnings are simply ridiculous). Usually they turn to him if the site was denied both (the most profitable, in my opinion, option, especially when working through Profit) and.

Begun's owners hoped that with the arrival of Yandex, the share of Rambler in the search pie of the Runet would increase slightly, which would allow them to increase their income, but this did not happen and now it is a meager amount (slightly more than a percent):

Simultaneously with the decision to stop working on the search engine, Rambler owners... First, the spelling of the name was changed - the Latin letters were replaced by the Russians, which, in fact, had to be done a long time ago. Secondly, the logo of the company has also changed, although for such a well-known brand the logo is no longer decisive:

Gradually, all the services that make up this mega-portal will change their appearance to match the new image. Will this help Rambler get out of the abyss into which he himself drove himself? Time will tell.

This portal includes many well-known services (you will even find the Nichrome browser there, and much more) that developed along with the search engine or were purchased by the owners of the portal over time (you can see a more detailed description and purpose of services in the help):

It seems to me that Rambler is now mainly used by Internet users with experience, who are hooked on it and its services (mail, maps, price.ru, ferra.ru, poster, etc.) at a time when it has not yet fallen into the "cool dive ".

Rambler is more likely alive than dead (for how long)

About a year ago, I read a post by a blogger who is also a school teacher. At the beginning of the school year, he interviewed schoolchildren about which search engine they use. Remarkably, none of them named Rambler, and many have never even heard of him. From this we can conclude that for this search engine, almost everything is already in the past.

The only service that appeared almost simultaneously with the search engine and has existed until now without any significant changes is. I have already written about him several times, including in the article about. In fact, this is a service that provides a free traffic counter and builds the top sites of the Russian Internet on the basis of its readings, dividing them into the appropriate headings.

The appearance of Rambler Top 100 has not yet been rebranded and looks, by and large, not ice. In addition, the way of monetization is somewhat striking, when advertising blocks that look like very much are displayed on the top and side of the catalog. I have nothing against them, but many people get the impression that the project is frivolous (the next step could be teasers with adult content):

Although there are still blocks of contextual advertising at the bottom, but again from a former competitor in the person of Yandex. Initially, the Top 100 rating was conceived to simplify the life of advertisers - I chose a category and now they are the leaders at the very top of the list. I don't know how relevant this is now, but I personally add all my sites to this Rambler service without fail. Why?

The fact is that because of its monstrous age (it was launched in the spring of 1997), the site of this service has a huge trust, and links from its pages are not blocked from being indexed by search engines. Can you guess where I am going? Whatever the Rambler Top 100 service is slow and uninformative, it will be useful to participate in it for any project.

There is such a powerful bourgeois service for analyzing sites and their link mass, like Ahrefs (Misha Shakin did his video review). So, there you can see all the backlinks leading to your resource. Moreover, they can be sorted by the internal rating of this service (AhrefsRank), which indirectly reflects the quality of this backlink.

In general, the service is useful and, perhaps, after the rebranding, it will look human (well, and its counter will stop periodically stupid). If we talk about Rambler as a whole, then the decline has been outlined for a long time and the decision to change the search engine was correct, because their own search has long lagged behind the times.

There were probably many reasons for the decline and decline in the search quality in Rambler, but, as I see it, the collapse began ten years ago. The great and terrible Igor Ashmanov, who once stood at the helm of this search engine, writes about this in his book Life Inside a Bubble.

When I wrote articles about the history of the creation of Yandex and the history of creation and the features of promotion in Google, I mentioned one common point, which, in my opinion, became decisive in the fact that both of these search engines are flourishing and developing successfully to this day. In both of these companies, the same people remained at the helm (Brin and Page, as well as Volozh and Segalovich), who stood at its origins.

Moreover, these people were in both cases enthusiasts of their business, for whom income was secondary, and the primary was the development and movement forward of their offspring. This is exactly what I did not find in the history of Rambler development. As Igor Ashmanov wrote, the split happened about ten years ago and those who worked on the search engine from the beginning were thrown out of the loop. Well, and, as it were, the result was not slow to affect.

The sad story of the Rambler search engine

In general, the history of the Rambler creation is quite interesting. It began in one of the scientific towns of Pushchino near Moscow. If you remember, you know that this system was first focused on the military needs of the states, and then for quite a long time served as a means of communication for the scientific communities of America (institutes).

In the early nineties of the last century, the Pushchino Science City was notable for the fact that it became the first city in the Moscow Region to have a dedicated line connected to the Internet via Moscow. It was the interest in the exchange of data on the latest research in the scientific world that spurred the activists to lay a cable to Moscow almost on their own.

In 1991, the Internet had just begun its triumphant march across the planet and practically did not exist yet (only in 1989 the world wide web WWW was invented and was used to create modern sites). Enthusiasts from Pushchino themselves raised mail and Ftp servers for their needs, and even within the entire Internet they were a significant unit.

Well, and the logical conclusion of the complete Internetization of the city's scientific community on its own was writing a search engine... For several months programmer Dmitry Kryukov successfully coped with this task. In the fall of 1996, the rambler.ru domain was acquired, and on October 8, a site with a search engine became available to Internet users.

Rambler means vagrant in English. He did not have any particular competitors in Runet, and therefore, until Yandex appeared on the horizon (autumn 1997), he became the sole and absolute leader in search. True, at that time there were only a hundred sites on the Russian Internet.

Six months later (spring 1997), the Rambler Top 100 rating, which has been successfully existing to this day, appeared, which we already talked about a little higher in the text.

The further history of the development of the search engine is not as straightforward and straightforward as we could see it in Yandex and Google. I don't want to go into the details of the management change and structural changes in the company, but now those who were at its origins no longer work in it. The creator of Rambler himself, Dmitry Kryukov, died in 2009 from a stroke. Igor Ashmanov created his own brand on the other side of the barricades - went over to the side of SEOs ().

Although up to a certain point (2006-2007) Rambler was a rumor and it seemed that the prospects for its further development were very favorable. New services were opened or acquired, the attendance and profit of the company grew.

For example, in 2006 Rambler was in second place in the Russian Internet search market with a very significant percentage:

It was even seriously ahead of Google, which now seems somewhat fantastic. But gradually the flaws of the management and the unwillingness to seriously work on the search engine affected. In the next few years (2007-2009), the share of Rambler searches decreased several times:

When it seemed that it was already worse and nowhere else (about 5% of the total market), he proved that it is possible, and his share decreased several times over the following years (2009-2011):

Well, now, when search on rambler.ru is carried out by the Yandex engine (by the way, my situation is exactly the same), there are no objective reasons for its decline in popularity due to poor search quality. It is possible that a market share of about one percent is the current bar for this once-popular search engine and now a mega-portal.

In general, it’s not so bad, in any case, I’m ready to switch places with Rambler, but I’m afraid that its owners will be against it. Now it makes no sense to talk about the features for Rambler due to the use of someone else's engine.

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site