Image quality improved

Recently we could proudly present our new box for category scrolling. Now we have a further improvement for you. All Exposé owners can get excited about an even better quality of their uploaded images. Nevertheless, it is still possible to upload any number of images up to a size of 1,5 MB in gif, jpg and png formats. Use the chance and give your Exposé more personality.

Furthermore, the images have now an improved preview for getting an even better overview of all images.

Because we are constantly improving  our user interface you can look forward to a little update of our layout. And now have fun with uploading your images!

Yasni increases profit and international growth

The yasni GmbH, operator of the people search engine Yasni (e.g. www.yasni.de, www.yasni.com), has successfully advanced its foreign expansion in 2011 and closes the fiscal year with a profit in the mid six-figure range.

According to Comscore Yasni was amongst the Top 50 websites in Germany in 2008 and was the fastest growing Top 100 site. Ever since we have quadrupled our traffic and are not only set among the Top 30 websites in Germany but also among the largest worldwide. Yasni is one of the few websites that can show sustained traffic growth.

The turnover has even been more than sixfolded since 2008 and since the middle of 2010 Yasni has made a profit every month. Within the fiscal year 2011 the seven-figure internal turnover of 2010 could be increased by more than 50 % and the profit has been multiplied to a mid six-figure amount.

Steffen Rühl, CEO of the yasni GmbH: “Although Yasni is neither made in Berlin nor will be hyped, it has been strongly growing in all business segments for years now and is, above all, internationally successful!”

Our 20-member team expanded the Yasni site by five more languages and developed six new country versions with the respective local search index within the last 12 months. In the beginning year 2012 Russian as new language has already been launched and a comparable jump in turnover as well as a seven-figure profit is planned for the current year.

Facts about Yasni:

  • 8 languages (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian)
  • 11 domains (com, de, fr, co.uk, it, es, at, ch, nl, ca, com.br) – yasni.ru will follow soon
  • Top 30 website in Germany
  • +300% traffic since 2008
  • +540% turnover since 2008

New Category Scrolling on the Search Result Pages

It is time again for another tiny but superb Yasni update. Since the end of last week we have smoothed and polished our search result pages for names. Most of you have probably already noticed the change: on the left hand side there is a new box which contains the several categories of the search result page for names. And that is the whole point: to make our search result pages (even) more ascertainable and to encourage an (even) deeper search. With the category box you can see at a glance which field the search results to the wanted name are from.

In the case of the newly Golden Globe winner George Clooney it looks like this:

If you click on a section in the box on the left, e.g. on “News”, the search result page automatically scrolls to the respective category. Just try it out for yourself!

Of course, the category titles will only be shown if there are search results to the wanted name within the respective category. If there are no videos to a name then the category “Video&Audio” won’t be shown in the new category box.