The search bar has disappeared from the Sputnik website, and now it only displays links to other
CNews asked Rostelecom about the reasons for the closureproject, at the time of publication of the note the company did not comment on the request. According to the portal, in total more than 2 billion rubles were spent on the project.
In 2017, Vedomosti learned that the authoritiesfound it to be ineffective. They wanted to close the project or refocus on other tasks, since in three years of work it did not gain even 1% of the RuNet search engine market.
Sputnik was launched in 2014. It was assumed that its use would be mandatory in government agencies. According to CNews estimates for 2016, the expenditures on Sputnik amounted to at least 2 billion rubles excluding the lease of space for developers, and the user audience of the search engine in Russia was less than 1%. In 2018, Rostelecom demanded that Sputnik LLC be declared bankrupt.
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