Penza, 22 May 2014. PenzaNews. The residents of Penza and the region can participate in testing of the beta-version of the service and search platform “” focused on socially important Internet services launched by Rostelekom.
“On the basis of a unified search technology, “Sputnik” is developing services that will be useful at home and at work, will help save time and money, find important official information, necessary services and organizations. For example, “Sputnik” can help you find the pharmacy with the necessary medication or gas station with the best price, the nearest veterinary clinic, or how to have the international passport done, how to make alterations in the apartment or receive benefits and allowances. Also “Sputnik” shows news of the day and a number of TV channels directly on the website of the platform,” the press secretary of Penza branch of OJSC Rostelekom Alexei Makarov.
He said that at the moment “Sputnik” has analyzed more than 10 billion documents of ru.net, picking correct, complete and official sources of information.
“Services of “Sputnik” are focused on Russian family who are looking for online assistant in daily life to help solving their domestic problems, and who are increasingly using the network to communicate with the public services and social institutions,” the agency interlocutor explained.
Alexei Makarov noted that in the nearest future the project team will improve technology based on the statistics of the real use of the service, come out of the beta-version, and expand the product line.
Officially, the launch of search platform “Sputnik” was announced at St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Thursday, May 22.
According to the president of JSC Rostelekom Sergei Kalugin, the aim of the new channel of communication with the consumer is to become popular as a platform for access to socially important services of the information society, which increases the standard of living.
