Rambler.ru Biography & Web Analysis

Rambler is a Russian search engine and one of the biggest Russian web portals. It is owned by the Rambler Media Group and Prof-Media since 2006. It was launched in 1996 by Stack Ltd, including Sergey Lysakov, Dmitry Kryukov, Vladimir Samoylov and others.
On July 18 2008 it was announced that Google was to acquire Begun, part of Rambler Media and one of the biggest Russian contextual advertising services for $140 million, but the deal was blocked by Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service.
In September 2016 it was reported that the site was breached in February 2012. LeakedSource received a dump of the user database at the time that included usernames, passwords, and ICQ instant messaging accounts for over 98 million users.
It was revealed that the Rambler.ru database stored user passwords in plaintext, meaning that whoever breached the database instantly had access to the e-mail accounts of all of its users.
The main competitors of Rambler in the Russian market are Yandex and Mail.ru. In 2020, the state-owned company Sberbank became the sole owner of Rambler Media Group