'Satellite' and puncture

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TEH-NOMAD blogger about the new state Internet search engine
Update: 05/24/2014 (14:43)
Have everyone already saw a new state search engine?

The main problem of the modern Russian state is not that it is corrupt through.

Its main problem is that it is absolutely ineffective when it comes to something more complicated than the budget cut.

For example, in the bowels of the state machine an idea arose about creating your own national search service.

Why do this when the existing resources cope well, and the one to whom the Yandex is not enough use the Russified Google, it was not clear from the very beginning.

Probably, considerations of state prestige affected here: Russia is a great country with nuclear weapons and space industry, which means that its own search engine is necessary before the cut.

If you need it - then do it. But the trouble is that the current Russian state and the corporations that he have borne by it can not be truly independent, original, creative. In the best case, only steal.

So he did Rostelecom, which was entrusted with the task of particular importance. Having spent almost four years or more than twenty million dollars on this, after several transfer of terms, on May 22, the company finally presented a beta version.

Named by the legendary name "satellite", which has recently been associated not with an iron ball in a near -Earth orbit, but with the work of Yegor Prosvirnin, the search engine is available at the address:

http://www.sputnik.ru

If you go to his page, then the first and most important feeling that you experience: "Somewhere I have already seen. And very often."

Five news ... Weather forecast ... Rubrication ... input line ... Everything is familiar, but something is missing.

What? Well, of course, Yandex yellow strip. The creators of the "satellite" turned out to be conscientious people, and stealing the interface in a 1: 1 proportion, they did not take the corporate color of the "Yandex", taking a blue color as a basic color.

This is the creative talent of the saw -offers from Rostelecom, and it was not possible to find anything else outstanding behind the "satellite".

Not to consider the introduction of several filters - to scatter the content.

http://www.sputnik.ru/settings

It is unlikely that the inability to see the photos on the request of the "poop", when the degree of filtration is strict, is a powerful competitive advantage that will force the mass audience to abandon the beloved "Yandex" and transplant to the raw blue "satellite".

However, the state has already taken care of this. When it became known about the initiatives of the deputy of the meadow to verify Yandex for violation of the media law, it seemed to be the dementia of one meadow.

However, not everything is so simple. Checking the "Yandex" by the Prosecutor General, which Lugovoi ordered, is the first step to destroying the resource - how this happens in Russia, we know well.

Before the presentation of the "satellite" there was no logic in this: why break a successful company? Now the logic has appeared: having created a search engine for the state account, the authorities are forced to maintain its existence - with their own hands, cleaning competitors.

It will not be possible to cope with Google, the gut is thin, but Yandex can be destroyed, especially since the replacement is ready - almost a twin, if the color in the next version is changed, it will be impossible to distinguish.

This is how the Russian state and the company grazing near it are valid: cuts, theft of intellectual property and the elimination of competitors.

And do not try to find these words in the "satellite": everything is decent and clean there.

P.S. My post is published on the website Poltrussia.ru: http://politrussia.ru/society/sputnik-i-prokol/
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