A working prototype of the Russian government search engine on the Internet should appear this year. The cost of the project until 2012 will amount to 3.3 billion rubles., Of which only 300 million – private money. Such conclusions can be drawn from data presentation Minkomsvyazi “Creating a Russian search engine. This presentation came to the journalists’ Gazety.ru.
Representative Minkomsvyazi on condition of anonymity, said the publication, that the presentation of “classified Minkomsvyazi” was first shown at the closed Board of the Ministry in March, and then it was shown at the meeting of the committee to modernize the economy under the president on May 13.
According to the presidential administration head Igor Shchegolev Minkomsvyazi only mentioned at the meeting about the possibility of establishing a national search engine, and a detailed presentation was provided to the administration later. Presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich confirmed that the idea of creating a search engine Shchegolev resounded at the commission meeting on May 13, but the presentation itself Dvorkovich not seen.
As follows from the presentation, development of the concept search engine, as well as launching the network “working prototype” should be held before the end of 2010. This part of the budget – 200 million rubles.
During the 2011 plan to spend 1 billion rubles for “industrial debugging, semantics, innovation. In the year 2012 (presentation covers the period until this year, but some parameters of the forecast given before 2018) 1.8 billion will go to the “scaling and Equipment.
All this – the budget money. Authors are invited to provide their presentations to the federal target program “Electronic Russia”, and since 2011 – long-term target program “Information Society”.
The remaining $ 300 million in funding for the search engine should invest venture capital (2 sub-150 million each), follows from the presentation. On the basis of the venture should be developed “advanced software development” – a visual and personalized search, “Artificial Intelligence in the analysis of requests. Financing of the responsibility of the JSC “Rosinfocominvest, venture fund created under Minkomsvyazi, and the head of the board of directors which is Shchyogolev.
Rationale for public search engine is reduced to the ability to control access to information (search page starting at 50% of users, but 10 years later, your search page will be the main entry point to information, says the presentation).
Search – Information window of Russia “, – explains Minkomsvyazi the national importance of the project. When search queries are invited prune dangerous information – “extremism, drugs, pornography – and include sites that reflect the state and municipal information.