Summary Yandex director general says Segalovich (48) died Saturday at a London hospital of cancer.
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia s largest search engine, Yandex, says its co-founder Ilya Segalovich has died. He was 48.
Yandex director general Arkady Volozh said that Segalovich died Saturday at a London hospital.
Volozh said in the company s blog that Segalovich was diagnosed with stomach cancer last year. He responded positively to chemical therapy, but then developed a brain cancer that caused his death.
Yandex announced Segalovich s death Thursday, but corrected itself within hours, saying that he was on life support with no brain function. Volozh said doctors removed life support after it became clear Segalovich couldn t be saved.
Segalovich, 48, founded Yandex in 2003 with Volozhh, his school friend.
The company has been a Russian success story, with a share of 62 percent of the search engine market in Russia compared with Google s 25.6 percent.
