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Russian state-run search engine Sputnik is launching tomorrow
According to Russian media, tomorrow will see the launch of a state-run search engine called Sputnikby telco giant Rostelekom, after several years of development. It will rival Yandex and Google.
Co-founder and editor-in-chief of Tech.eu, with previous stints at The Next Web and TechCrunch under his belt. Deeply in love with his family, technology, traveling and Belgian beer.
Almost 70 years after the cold war-era ‘Space Race’ between the United States and Russia was kickstarted by the latter’s launch of the Sputnik 1satellite into low Earth orbit, another Sputnik launch will likely start a new chapter in the Russian ‘Search Race’.Rostelecom will debut a new search engine dubbed Sputnik.ru, report various local business media.live on the first day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, nicknamed the ‘Russian Davos’, according to the reports.major competitor to Yandex, one the leading technology companies in Russia, and American Internet search and advertising giant Google. Yandex has a roughly 62% search market share in Russia, followed by Google Russia with 27.6% and Mail.Ru with 7.7%, according to LiveInternet stats.Alexey Basov, a Vice President at Rostelekom with previous experience as an executive at the likes of Mail.Ru, Begun and SpyLOG under his belt.default service within state companies and government departments according to a recent The Moscow Times report. Others say Sputnik will serve more as some sort of vertical search engine for government-controlled corporations and state departments only, which would lessen its appeal to the average Russian Internet user. And others say it has no chance.
The estimated investment that was poured into the development of Sputnik lies somewhere between$20 million and $42 million, which is paltry compared to the research and development investments made by Yandex, let alone Google, to date when it comes to fine-tuning its search services.reclassified as ‘mass media’ (and face all the Russia-specific restrictions that nomenclature entails).or both.Yakov Sadchikov )+
According to Russian media, tomorrow will see the launch of a state-run search engine called Sputnikby telco giant Rostelekom, after several years of development. It will rival Yandex and Google.
Co-founder and editor-in-chief of Tech.eu, with previous stints at The Next Web and TechCrunch under his belt. Deeply in love with his family, technology, traveling and Belgian beer.
Almost 70 years after the cold war-era ‘Space Race’ between the United States and Russia was kickstarted by the latter’s launch of the Sputnik 1satellite into low Earth orbit, another Sputnik launch will likely start a new chapter in the Russian ‘Search Race’.Rostelecom will debut a new search engine dubbed Sputnik.ru, report various local business media.live on the first day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, nicknamed the ‘Russian Davos’, according to the reports.major competitor to Yandex, one the leading technology companies in Russia, and American Internet search and advertising giant Google. Yandex has a roughly 62% search market share in Russia, followed by Google Russia with 27.6% and Mail.Ru with 7.7%, according to LiveInternet stats.Alexey Basov, a Vice President at Rostelekom with previous experience as an executive at the likes of Mail.Ru, Begun and SpyLOG under his belt.default service within state companies and government departments according to a recent The Moscow Times report. Others say Sputnik will serve more as some sort of vertical search engine for government-controlled corporations and state departments only, which would lessen its appeal to the average Russian Internet user. And others say it has no chance.
The estimated investment that was poured into the development of Sputnik lies somewhere between$20 million and $42 million, which is paltry compared to the research and development investments made by Yandex, let alone Google, to date when it comes to fine-tuning its search services.reclassified as ‘mass media’ (and face all the Russia-specific restrictions that nomenclature entails).or both.Yakov Sadchikov )+
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