Mail.ru, an Internet portal controlled by Digital Sky Technologies, is in talks with Google to use its search engine, Vedomosti reported Monday, citing an unidentified person familiar with the matter.
Mail.ru plans to let its current contract with Yandex lapse this month because the search engine asked the portal to add its brand on the web site, the newspaper said, citing the person.
Vedomosti said that Vladimir Dolgov, head of Google in Russia, and a press official at Mail.ru declined to comment.
(Bloomberg)
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