Russia launches new search engine Sputnik.ru

Russian State communications Rostelecom is working on new search engine Sputnik.ru, which will be available within the borders of the State of Russia, despite competition from other search engines most commonly used among the Russians (Yandex, Google et Mail.ru).

Rostelecom, which is the main actor in the country and which operate under the guidance of the Russian presidency aspires to launch new search engine within 3 or 4 months, and for that the company has hired many new developers to improve the capacity of the engine and improve the characteristics of this new service.

According to Vedomosti, the news website a new search engine has emerged for the first time in 2008 and then developed the idea of 2010 when Minister of communications on the new project worth 20 million dollars.

On the other hand, the new Russian Sputnik.ru search engine (which carries the name of the first satellite in space are in the history days of the Soviet Union) would find itself in competition with other search engines, popular in Russia and notably with the Russian search engine Yandex acquires a 60 percent of Russians advanced Internet users to Google and Mail.ru.

Meanwhile, observers said the chances of the new search engine a few Sputnik.ru due to two things: first, intense competition and the second is the fact that the Russian telecommunications company Rostelecom has no previous experience in this area.