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Here in the US Yandex isn’t exactly a household name. In Russia, Yandex is the most popular search engine leading Google. Yandex has over 60% of the Russian search market … Continue reading

Branded queries such as “Southwest Airlines” have begun turning up Google results with large-scale banner ads while searches for artists have started a roll-out of specialized YouTube listings. This is all part of a multi-tiered Google Search modification that brings more cash to the search giant and allows brand integration to run in one case, […]

Rumor has it that Russia is developing a new search engine called Sputnik which intends to dominate the Russian market. Since the search engine is said to be state controlled, the government will essentially be able to control the kind of information it wants people to have access to. Apparently state owned telecommunications group Rostelecom is developing Sputnik, which has been named after the Sputnik satellite. The report comes from Russia’s Vedomosti newspaper. Even if Sputnik doesn’t see mass adoption within the people, there’s a possibility that it might become the default search engine that government officials in Russia use.

The rise to domination over the search market won’t be an easy task for Sputnik. Local search engine Yandex already commands 62 percent of the search market, the rest is looked after by other companies, Google too holds a substantial market share. Analyst Ivan Kim of VTB believes that this project is beyond the skill set of Rostelecom, which is primarily involved in the telecoms service business. He believes that “the venture is unlikely to meet with success.” He also believes that this project was imposed upon Rostelecom and may result in money going down the drain, $20 million has reportedly been spent so far on Sputnik. The search engine is said to have indexed half of the Russian internet, it will apparently be launched in the first quarter of 2014.

‘Sputnik’ State Controlled Search Engine Reportedly Being Developed In Russia original content from Ubergizmo.

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For its 15th birthday, Google is throwing itself a loving party, a nostalgic trip down memory-of-itself lane, a celebration of its rise from humble search David to search Goliath. And we’re all invited. Go to Google.com, type in “Google in 1998″ and hit the search button. What do you see? We see little baby Google, […]