Yandex 2014 first quarter earnings release shows the Russian search engine’s revenue was up 36 percent year-over-year since first quarter of 2013, totaling RUR 10.9 billion ($305 million). The site’s share of the Russian search market averaged 61.9 percent, with search queries growing 21 percent from the first quarter of last year. Yandex net income for the first quarter of the year was RUR 2.6 billion ($71.5 million), up six percent from Q1 2013. “We enjoyed growth in the number of advertisers, enhanced Yandex.Direct functionality for domestic and international clients and made several important launches on the mobile front,” said Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh. Yandex advertising revenues were up 39 percent since first quarter 2013, with text-based ads representing 92 percent of its total revenues in Q1 and display ads accounting for 7 percent. At more than 280,000, the number...