Search company will refuse the news
Internet search companies are ready categorically refuse news if their news aggregators will be treated as the media. Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to meet with their followers and to discuss the adjustment of the Runet.

Internet search companies are ready categorically refuse news if their news aggregators will be treated as the media. Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to meet with their followers and to discuss the adjustment of the Runet.
In the scope of the forum "Internet-business in Russia"held in Moscow on 10 June, Putin may meet with top officials of Russian Internet companies. The main question that they worry about is whether news aggregators equated to mass media. Then many of them are willing to turn away from such a function.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov in may, said he does not consider, for example, "Yandeks.Novosti" media would be nejasno, and currently at the expert level is discussion of how to attach it in the legislation. Among the major Internet sites that are not media, news assignments, except Yandex'a" and Mail.ru publish Google, Rambler, and another new search engine "Sputnik", controlled by municipal "Rostelecom", RBC reports.
The Internet company, in its turn, plans to engage in own offices of MPs to show them the method of selection of news. The selection is performed automatically, according to the software method, and sometimes without the participation of the editors. Services do not report their own materials, but merely collects already published. From all reputable companies only Mail.ru is made manual selection of news for a top of the basic and internal pages.
Press Secretary of the "Satellite" said the news from new search engine among other things going mechanically, quality selection of news observes 1 editor, but it takes a technical function, without making the text of the news adjustments. "If a law is adopted, requiring aggregators registration as the media, we will follow this law," he added. So far, the "Sputnik" is the only domestic search engine, has agreed to register as mass media, and not going categorically refuse aggregation of news at all.
However serious disagreement between the managing company and the authorities at the moment, in consequence of this is expected that firms will be able to come to an agreement. Closing news portals are not strongly affect the firms, but will hit the traffic news organisations.