Partners

Mail.Ru Group

Mail.Ru Group is the largest Internet company in the Russian-speaking world and the leading one in the Russian Internet by monthly unique users. Mail.Ru Group operates Russia's leading free e-mail service Mail.Ru and the two largest IM networks in Russia – Mail.Ru Agent and ICQ. The company also controls two of the three largest Russian-language social networking websites – My World@Mail.Ru and Odnoklassniki.ru – and owns a strategic minority equity stake in the other one, VKontakte.

Mail.Ru Group’s total monthly audience is 75.6M.

Mail.Ru Agent is accessed by 18.7M unique users monthly.

Challenges

Improve the positioning quality and geolocation availability for Maps, Traffic monitoring and Local search services in Mail.Ru Agent’s mobile software.

Enable POI search in Mail.Ru search engine.

Solution

The use of AlterGeo’s Hybrid Location SDK for Windows, Mac OS X, Symbian and Windows Mobile allowed geographic features to be added to Mail.Ru Agent on non-iOS/Android platforms.

AlterGeo POI Engine API provided Mail.Ru search engine with the high-quality POI search opportunity.

Current status: Location-aware features provided by AlterGeo are used by 9M+ people monthly.

Visit partners website: http://www.mail.ru