Indian Kosmix to take on Google

[INS-ANI]

Indian duo's Kosmix to take on Google
Two Indian engineers, who missed chances twice to buy Google nearly 10 years ago, have now raked in funds for their own site to rival the search engine giant.

The Indian duo have received funds worth $20 million from media and entertainment conglomerate Time Warner for their search site -- Kosmix.

"Anand Rajarman and Venky Harinarayan, the Indian Internet entrepreneurs, have received $20 million of funding from Time Warner for their site," The Telegraph reported on Tuesday.

Way back in 1998, Google founder Sergey Brin offered fellow Stanford University PhD students Anand Rajarman and Venky Harinarayan the chance to buy the now search engine giant for about $1 billion.

"They said no," the report published online said.

The very next year, the Indian pair with Amazon backing offered $443 million. But Brin and Google co-founder Larry Page had refused to accept less than $1 billion, the publication noted.

Now Kosmix has also got the backing of Motorola chairman and chief executive Ed Zander and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

"Google works if you know exactly what you're looking for. But if you have only got a vague idea, it can be quite hard to find the answer," Rajarman was quoted as saying.

"Kosmix allows you to browse a whole topic and suggests areas that it thinks you might be interested in," he added.

According to Rachel Lam, who is the senior vice president and group managing director of Time Warner Investments, Kosmix's technology and its innovations around the traditional online publishing model could represent a paradigm shift "in how targeted content is delivered to consumers".

"Kosmix's management team is in the forefront of a new online business model...and importantly, one that should continue to generate strong revenue growth, even in today's challenging economic environment," Rachel Lam was quoted as saying.
http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/dec...-on-google.htm

[ajayashish]

wow... good news... indians are always in news..

[thewisecrab]

Cool news. Thanks for sharing. When will it be launched?

[ico]

It will NOT be that easy.....

[thewisecrab]

Originally Posted by gagandeep

It will NOT be that easy.....

Ofcourse it wont. Many have tried to take on Google but have failed big time. Even so, Kosmix might have a few tricks up it's sleeve considering that these 2 Indians shared the same class as Larry Page and Sergey Brin AND were to buy Google. So who knows what can happen?
All I want to say to them is "best of luck" for their endeavour.

[victor_rambo]

Originally Posted by thewisecrab

AND were to buy Google.

Buying Google and beating Google technology are two different things.
And the 'Google' they were offered was not the present day Google.

And anybody remember cuil.com? How many of you use it, or even recollected it until I mentioned now? These people are in the new for a short time, and then there is no news!

[red_devil]

Originally Posted by rohan_shenoy

And anybody remember cuil.com? How many of you use it, or even recollected it until I mentioned now? These people are in the new for a short time, and then there is no news!

i belong to the highlighted category

but there is nothing wrong in trying to take on google... more of these wars might only mean better services offered to people like us

[entrana]

awesome news specially when indians are involved. good to now a new search engine is coming out , bored of google.

just checked on kosmix. it isnt that good. i just typed nvidia well it gave me a lot of unnecessary stuff, so it has a lot of work to do as a search engine. the site is kewl though

[GauravCJ]

What a pathetic piece of joke! Google succeeded for it's awesome accuracy, mind boggling speeds and power search capabilities (damn, the operators rock!). This junk has none of that, so I hope their webserver catches fire and dies out with all their site assets....

Long live google......I just love the monopoly. At least someone doesn't have to try too hard.

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

beating Google is impossible until the shift in technology happens.
for now, for this age and current internet technology, Google is going to rule.

[parthbarot]

nah dude... nothing is impossible.... who knows if they got some new ideas?new things?afterall google also was started very small...and got ahead...
so..its not like that....yah they m,ust have to do amazing hard+smart work...

lets hope something good from these guys....

regards.

[Garbage]

hmm... good... n All the Best.

[Vishal Patil]

it's not impossible, but very difficult to beat google.
Lets see, best of luck to the two guys out there...

[ThinkFree]

Nice to hear that.
But title should have been Indian Kosmix to take on Google SEARCH.

[amol48]

Seems to be inspired by the 'K' mania!!

I tried searching some random terms but found it quite slow even on my 512kpbs broadband. No doubt it would be too slow for dial-up users!!

[thewisecrab]

Originally Posted by GauravCJ

What a pathetic piece of joke! Google succeeded for it's awesome accuracy, mind boggling speeds and power search capabilities (damn, the operators rock!). This junk has none of that, so I hope their webserver catches fire and dies out with all their site assets....

Long live google......I just love the monopoly. At least someone doesn't have to try too hard.

Dude, some competition would always mean better services for us. It's not right to thrash-talk their efforts even before their service starts. (still in beta stages now) Even so, you are entitled to your opinion.

Originally Posted by amol48

Seems to be inspired by the 'K' mania!!

I tried searching some random terms but found it quite slow even on my 512kpbs broadband. No doubt it would be too slow for dial-up users!!

Really? Thats wierd.

[Arun the Gr8]

Originally Posted by ThinkFree

Nice to hear that.
But title should have been Indian Kosmix to take on Google SEARCH.

MAN EVERYONE GOT THE POINT, AND THAT IS WHAT THE POINT IS...

[victor_rambo]

Originally Posted by thewisecrab

Dude, some competition would always mean better services for us.

I think we could make Google an exception here. Google has continually been the trend-setter and its getting better by the day. Do you think Yahoo! or Live search are fierce competitors for Google?