Rostelecom will launch the state Internet search engine

Rostelecom is developing a new search engine Sputnik, which can be launched as early as 2014.

As the source at Rostelecom told Vedomosti, the search engine, which will be located at sputnik.ru, will begin work in the first quarter of 2014. He noted that the project has existed for about three years, and its active development has been underway for the last one and a half or two years, for which the company invested $ 20 million in it.

According to the newspaper, the new search engine will be promoted “at the state level” and, by default, will be installed in government agencies and state-owned companies. At the same time, the source of the publication at Rostelecom said that the search engine would not provide for filtering content that was not acceptable to the state, and market methods would be used to promote it among users. The system is developed by KM Media, acquired by Rostelecom in 2012 (read the interesting comments on the link to Roem.ru).
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The sources of the publication in Yandex and Mail.ru Group said that Rostelecom is now conducting interviews with developers at these companies.

The fact that the Russian authorities were carrying out the idea of ​​creating a national search engine, more than the existing search engines focused on state needs, was first written by the media in the spring of 2010. Then it was claimed that the initiator of the project was Vladislav Surkov, who held the post of deputy head of the presidential administration.

The idea of ​​creating a “state search engine” appeared in 2008 in the administration of then-President Dmitry Medvedev. This happened after the war in Georgia, State Duma Deputy Ilya Ponomarev told Vedomosti. The information in the news sections of the search engines did not always correspond to the official one and at the same time had a great response. Then it became clear that the search engine can serve as a powerful media resource and be used as an aggregator of the news needed by the state. In the same year, businessman Alisher Usmanov wanted to acquire a stake in Yandex, the largest Russian search engine with a share of over 60% in runet.

So far, sputnik.ru welcomes visitors with an authorization form. Not a bad result for two years of development and a budget of $ 20 million.

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Source: tape.ru , statements