User:Lemongrabstan/sandbox

UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Despite the traction Sputnik first got during its release, the engine had two million visitors within the first week(https://tekdeeps.com/national-search-engine-sputnik-finally-closed/), it was unable to compete with other search engines as time passed. In 2017, less than 1% of Russians used the engine, as they had a preference for Yandex and Google.

The launch of Sputnik was deemed unsuccessful by the President of Rostelecom, Mikhail Oseevsky. In order to help bring in users, Oseevsky wanted to make Sputnik the primary search engine for government agencies and businesses, but he got little to no support for this (cite this).

Sputnik LLC was declared bankrupt in 2018 after Rostelecom was unable to pay its debt of 10.6 million rubles (https://tadviser.com/index.php/Company:Sputnik_Search_portal#2020:_Rostelecom_closed_superexpensive_national_search_engine_.22Sputnik.22). Rostelecom officially took down the search box from the website in 2020. The only thing that remains of the site for visitors is links to other projects created by Rostelecom (https://tadviser.com/index.php/Company:Sputnik_Search_portal#2020:_Rostelecom_closed_superexpensive_national_search_engine_.22Sputnik.22)