The search engine found money

Rostelecom allocated 260.4 million rubles for the development of the state search engine "Sputnik" and the same browser of the same name. Materials of the corresponding tender are published on the public procurement website.

The only contractor of the contract is indicated by LLC "Search Portal" Sputnik. It is said that it is necessary to expand the use of the browser in the state and corporate segments of the market and increase the stability of work. On the basis of the search engine, the development of a news aggregator, cards and other functions is planned. The search engine should be adapted for different operating systems, in particular, under linux. It is also necessary. pay attention to the development of the mobile version of the "satellite".

The work was supposed to undergo in the period from January 1 to December 15, 2017. "We started at the beginning of the year, we finish at the end. This is due to the optimization of intra -group revolutions of funds. That is, the work began before the purchase," said Rostelecom.

In May 2014, Rostelecom introduced the beta version of the State Search System "Sputnik" . The specialization of a new resource is stated - assistance to Russians in solving everyday problems, such as the search for the best prices for medicines, contacts of government agencies serving a particular house, or instructions for obtaining maternity capital. The company assured that the development of the "satellite" was conducted from Rostelecom's own funds and did not cost Russian taxpayers a penny. The initial investment in the project amounted to $ 20 million, but Rostelecom did not disclose the total investments.

In May of this year, Vedimii wrote that Rostelecom was recognized as an unsuccessful attempt to create a search engine "Sputnik". As a satellite technical project took place, but did not gain popularity as a search engine, one of the sources noted. According to LiveInternet, the state search engine could not take even one percent of the market. In April, from the "satellite" to other Russian sites, they switched about 100.8 thousand times, while the Yandex and Google are calculated by billions. According to Spark -Interfax, the revenue of the "satellite" in 2015 amounted to 136.6 million rubles, a loss - 150.5 million.

Completely close the project, which was positioned as a national search engine, "wrong," noted one of the sources of the publication. According to him, Rostelecom can reorient the "satellite" on tasks related to the calculation of big data.

President of Rostelecom Mikhail Oseevsky said then that the state -owned company did not plan to close the "satellite". “This project will undoubtedly be continued. In any case, we will optimize our expenses,” Oseevsky said. “I don’t know if the task was to compose full competition for Yandex or Google, but nevertheless, the country has such an instrument. We are now thinking about what additional applications can be.”