SpyLog

History

Andrey Andreyev (it is an alias) in 1999 created the first service of statistics in Runet — SpyLog (in the literal translation from English "the magazine of work of the spy").

The history SpyLog, the former CEO of the company Sergey Babayants remembers, began in 1999 in the cellar where Andreyev's firm Virus trading in computers^[1]rented the premises ]. SpyLog studied behavior of users in network and earned from sale of analytical reports to owners of web resources, advertizing agencies, marketing specialists.

"It was the first Russian service of the mute who could be used as the system of web analytics" — the chairman of the board of directors of Aktivist holding Leonid Filatov explains SpyLog advantages.

In 2001 many American users, having glanced in history of the browsers, found out that their computers someone visited from the website Spylog.net. The domain was registered in Valencia (Spain). For contact it was offered to contact on the suspicious e-mail address pz@virus.ru Pyotr Zaytsev (now possesses own firm in Silicon Valley). Eventually the Moscow acquaintances of transatlantic bloggers confirmed that SpyLog — "business, dear and big to the Russian measures". Invasion did not do any harm to the American computers, and the storm abated.

In 2007 Activist paid about $3 million for SpyLog. Whether Andreyev helped out something from the transaction, it is unknown: he left the project in January, 2002. According to Babayants, still working in SpyLog, Andreyev's team already did the following project — Runner.

Why Andreyev left? According to Filatov, his calling — to start new projects. Andreyev from those who can "make a feature in the cellar, sells for $100,000 and be engaged new", Filatov says.

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