Russia's Yandex reaches settlement in search engine dispute


FILE PHOTO Yandex founder and CEO Arkady Volozh front 2nd R celebrates as Yandex is listed on the Nasdaq exchange during their IPO at the Nasdaq market site in New York May 24 2011. REUTERSMike SegarFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: Yandex founder and CEO Arkady Volozh (front, 2nd R) celebrates as Yandex is listed on the Nasdaq exchange during their IPO at the Nasdaq market site in New York May 24, 2011. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian tech giant Yandex on Wednesday said it had reached a settlement agreement in a competition law dispute over its search engine results with Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) and a consortium of IT companies.

The FAS told Yandex last February that it had created unequal market conditions for general online search services, that it was preferentially promoting its own products and asked it to stop. Yandex at the time said it was ready to defend its position.

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