Runet Today, April 4, 2011. Experts of the issue: Elena Masolova, Alena Popova

    At Finam FM studio , Elena Masolova, co-founder of Groupon Russia and CEO of Pixonic, and Alena Popova, creator of the virtual incubator for women’s startups, consultant in the field of startup business. Together with Maxim Spiridonov, they discuss the “slipping” of Yandex search images, the attack on LiveJournal and, more broadly, the topic of DDoS attacks on Internet resources from the point of view of business and law, the transition of the Russian BBC service to online broadcasting , the possibility of developing a national Russian search engine on the basis of an already well-known service and, finally, the opening of a new investment fund by Yuri Milner and Alisher Usmanov.

    1. Yandex announced that the inability to find a number of fresh images through its search in pictures is due to a technical malfunction, rather than censorship.According to the search engine administration, last December Yandex decided to organize large-scale indexing of images on the World Wide Web. During the implementation of the plan, the delay between the image on the system’s servers and its appearance in the search results increased to six weeks. The companies intend to consistently narrow this gap.

    - Did the lag in image indexing really have technical reasons?
    - Is the state capable of influencing the issuance of Yandex in one way or another?


    2. On Wednesday, March 30, LiveJournal blog hosting users experienced difficulties accessing the service.According to the administration of the resource, the cause of the failure is a massive distributed attack on the system’s servers. Due to the sharp increase in the number of requests to the LiveJournal website, its technical experts were forced to block part of the normal traffic along with malicious traffic. The solution to the problem, according to the service’s management, took about seven hours.

    - Who attacked LiveJournal? “Attacks of failure” as an instrument of struggle for politics and business.
    - How did you fight Groupon DDoS attacks?
    - Elena Masolova: “The organizers of the attack shot themselves in the foot”, “There should not be a state in RuNet. Let them sit in the ministry and help us. ”


    3. The Russian service of the BBC stopped broadcasting on short and medium waves.Some of the programs of the radio station will continue to be released in Internet format on the website BBCRussian.com. The reasons for the decision, the head of the service Sarah Gibson did not indicate in her address to the public. Also, according to Interfax, the BBC’s worldwide service stops broadcasting to Russia in English on short and medium waves.

    —What is the departure of the Russian BBC service to the Internet connected with? What are the new online priorities of one of the largest media structures in the world?
    - What technological solutions will allow to transfer all broadcast media to the Network?
    - When will the border “Runet - the rest of the world” disappear?


    4. According to the newspaper Kommersant, the national Russian search engine can be created on the basis of the Quintura system.In March, the three founders of the service in equal shares bought out a share of the Luxembourg-based Mangrove Capital Partners fund in the company. It is possible that the creation of a national search engine will be supervised by the state corporation Rostekhnologii through a structure under its control. However, while hypothetical project participants are not ready to talk about it as a given.

    - Will a state search engine be finally created? Does Runet need it and what funds may be required to create it?
    - Alena Popova: “Quintura is inconvenient, not user-friendly.”
    - Elena Masolova: “If a startup starts playing any state game, then it starts playing on a different field and according to different rules.”


    5. The Google search engine has implemented a social recommendations button +1.By clicking on it, you can "vote" for any material in the issuance of the system. Initially, users of the search engine will see notes that are made by those with whom they contact through Google services. However, in the future it is possible to integrate this recommendation mechanism with social networks, such as Twitter. The item currently exists in test mode and works in English search on Google.com.

    - Social search: a niche solution or a global trend?
    - Elena Masolova: “[Searching], by default, the crowd is smarter than some selected group of people, in this case friends.”
    - Facebook vs. Google: elephant vs whale.


    6. Yuri Milner and Alisher Usmanov established the DST Global 2 fund.Its volume is several hundred million dollars. According to the Vedomosti newspaper, citing a source close to the situation, the fund primarily invested in Groupon's collective discount service. The second investment should be the Spotify music service: 5% of the company is supposed to be bought for $ 50 million. A significant share in DST Global 2, according to experts, belongs to foreign investors.

    - DST will develop an international partnership?
    —Alena Popova: “Russians are changing the rules in the investment market.”
    - Elena Masolova: “DST works for Russia as a PR agency.”
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