‘Russia Launching New Search Engine ‘Sputnik’ to Compete With Google’ – ‘Mashable’

Adario Strange says, “The name Sputnik stands tall in history books as the vessel that helped spark a space race with the U.S. But a new Russian project with the same name is planning to play catch-up in an area where the U.S. already has a huge lead: search engines.Rostelecom, the country’s state-controlled telecom service, has been charged with creating a search engine to compete with the likes of Google, as well as well local search-engine leaderYandex, which is based in the Netherlands, according to Reuters“.