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Kosmix.com, the popular web search engine closed up the fund counting with an outcome of $20 million invested by TimeWarner, with the contribution form prevailing investors the Accel Partners, the light speed venture partners and the Dag ventures. The total investment counts around to $55 million funding with respect to Kosmix.com.

Two friends, Mr. Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, launched the Kosmix.com in the year 2005. The Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaram were the co-founders of a shopping web based search site, the Junglee. The Junglee was purchased by the famous search site, the Amazon.com in the year 1998.

The Kosmix instigated as a vertical web-based search engine with initial introduction of health related search sites such as the RightHealth.com, as an evidence of notion for the Kosmix advance to the pace of Internet navigation. In mid 2008, the Kosmix stretched its concentration from the normal vertical to fully horizontal application according to the TechCrunch and Crunchbase sources.

With the comparison of Kosmix and Google, the Anand Rajaraman stated that the Google gives accurate result if you are aware of what exactly you are searching for. However, if you just possess a vague idea on any topic, it may be hard to offer the correct answer. He also claims that the Kosmix permit a person to search on a complete topic even with a vague knowledge and it comes out with the entire inter-related topic that you may be interested in.

The extraordinary features of Kosmix.com gained many investors and thereby, helped in rising up $20 million, which is quite a brilliant achievement. The Kosmix.com states that it is planning to use the extra new raise in funds to build up partnerships with some other web properties, add up prominent sales team and to expand the site. The co-founders of Kosmix put forward few examples to prove that the Kosmix is the most relevant search site. He used a simple algorithmic sentence that described the discrepancy between the Google and the Kosmix. The Statements goes Google equals to Search and find but Kosmix equals to explore and browse.

The two Web giants, Google and Yahoo!, have raised a storm in the coffee cup of the government officials. But despite of several scrutinies, the two Companies are reported to be on the course of action. The Web leaders are planning an online search ad partnership which will be ending every other competition in this field, around the Internet. Google when faced a U.S. Justice Department for this search-advertising partnership with Yahoo, reported to proceed with their stated agreement by October.

It is reported that the employees of Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google informed US politicians about the prospective of this anti-competitive Yahoo!-Google advertisement partnership. Michael Callahan, lawyer of Yahoo!, joked on this matter in a funny way. But Brad Smith, Microsoft solicitor, describes themselves to have the potential to fight and win against Google. This partnership deal between Yahoo! and Google was explained to the US Congress to be a situation where Google gets total control over the search system, which is again the key to the Internet.

In another words, the Microsoft-Yahoo! deal was explained to be more rational to the Web. “We are going to move forward,” Eric Schmidt, CEO at Google said in the exclusive interview with Bloomberg Television at Denver on Thursday. Schmidt complains that the Government is not yet clear to them as how they will be dealing with Google and by this time they are progressing toward their dealings with Yahoo!
Presently Google is behind more than 60 percent of search requests over the internet search market. While Yahoo is serving 16.6 percent of the global search queries. The Security and Exchange Commission took a look at the payment plan for Yahoo! Google has been found compensating the advertising revenue of an undisclosed percentage each month. The split in revenue being unclear, the filing also describes the possibility of Google cancelling the deal when the gross revenue for consecutive four months remains below $83 million.
Google acquiring too much of power has raised a hot discussion in the $65 billion online advertising market. The U.S. Justice Department has launched the formal antitrust investigation during this year which wants a close look to this deal. Besides this about more than a dozen states’ attorneys general who got to know the partnership agreement, have opened an inquiry for this deal.
Microsoft not being happy with this, has brought the consumer privacy issue, in addition to everything. Microsoft put a warning for the web that these two web giants will pool immense consumer data and may profile millions of users easily. To counter this, Yahoo has announced that the Company cares for User Privacy and will provide users the choice of their behavioural targeting for the Web sites it owns. On this Google has been clam and easy, explaining that they always worry a little bit. They are now strong believers of their arguments for this deal and Schmidt was found so reluctant to Bloomberg.

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