Education
Russian State Geological Prospecting University.
entrepreneur officer programmer
Russian State Geological Prospecting University.
He was Chief Technology Officer and director of Yandex since 2000 until his death in 2013. Segalovich proposed the name “Yandex” for the search engine, derived from the idea of “Yet Another iNDEX”. He began his career working on information retrieval technologies in 1990 at Arkadia Company, where he headed their software team
From 1993 to 2000, Ilya Segalovich led the retrieval systems department for CompTek International.
He left CompTek to co-found Yandex in 2000. All three of these companies were founded or co-founded by his schoolmate, Arkady Volozh.
He received a degree in geophysics from the South. Ordzhonikidze Moscow Geologic Exploration Institute. On July 25, 2013, Yandex issued a press release stating that Segalovich had died after a long illness.
However, the statement was later retracted, with the United States and Russian media reporting that he is in a coma with no brain activity.
His death was confirmed by Yandex on July 28, 2013. He died of meningitis, which came as a complication of stomach cancer.