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The frontal attack against Google, which tried to portray the creators of Cuil, has lost its strength due to a serious mistake.

Jonathan Grattage, an expert in quantum physics, was amazed to see the results of Cuil when searching his name. The result is accompanied by a photograph of an American soldier and two men having sex.

The British publication “The Register” requested a comment to Cuil, who replied that the photographs are intended to help users find material that interests them.

In an e-mail, Cuil explains that “offers to users the opportunity to consider the results looking at a picture, instead of having to read 200 words.” Such functionality poses a great challenge, nor Google has succeeded so far resolving this satisfactorily. “We have had progress, but much remains to go,” writes Vince Sollitto, in charge of public relations at Cuil.

Cuil explained that the image of homosexuals was included among the results due to “a massive search activity.”

Both photographs have been eliminated from the search engine, after the consultation made by The Register.

The search engine has also been ridiculed by name. According to the company itself, Cuil is an Irish name for “wisdom”. But according to The Register, Cuil also is a former Irish voice to “back”.

Not many years ago, Google itself was a small business and recently founded. Google then has created its own venture capital firm to help other entrepreneurs.

The project is named Google Venture and will be in charge of the current vice president of corporate development of Google, David Drummond.

Over the years, Google has bought a large quantity of small enterprises, in order to have access to their applications and technologies. By investing in the stage of development and establishment of a project, Google will have access from the beginning to innovative technologies.

Google joins and then drives to similar initiatives in Silicon Valley by giants like Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola that have invested large sums in new businesses.

According to the Wall Street Journal venture capital investments have fallen by 12% over the past year. In the second quarter of 2008, just in the U.S. were invested $6.64 billion dollars in a total of 602 new companies.

Tom Costello, husband of Anna Patterson, is also involved in the project, along with two other former employees of Google, Russel Power and Louis Monier.

The new search engine has indexed 120 billion pages, according to the creators of Cuil equivalent to three times the database of pages of Google.

However, the big difference is that Cuil, unlike Google, groups search results into categories, giving the user a better overall view.

After making some fairly specific evidence, such as brands or products obsolete Spanish local news, that Google found without difficulty, it is clear that Cuil still has much work to do before they have indexed the entire network.

The company received a capital injection of about $ 33 million, contributed by various investors.

Knol is an abbreviation of Knowledge, which is precisely the idea of the new service, that people with great knowledge on a specific topic share information with others.

“The Internet is huge, but there are multiple sources that are not yet available. Knol allows people to share their knowledge and receive recognition for their contributions. In the same way that the name of a writer is provided on the cover of a book, the author’s name from a Knol also appears on the page, together with possible links to other articles by him. In a Knol, the author can incorporate references include links to related information and interact with readers. Readers, meanwhile, can comment, assigning grades and publish criticism, “writes Juergen Galler, director of product Google search.

Although Knol is an initiative of Google, it is difficult not to conjure Wikipedia.

However, one of the differences between Wikipedia and Knol is that the authors of articles published in Knol can determine on their own terms content others can modify or add. The article in question can also be blocked, making it impossible to edit it.

Google also offers to share advertising revenue with the author of the article. Similarly, the author can decide under what type of license article will be published.

Initially, Google will be difficult to achieve the volume of material published by Wikipedia, whose English edition reaches 2.5 million articles.

Google said that the agreement underlines its commitment to improve the services offered to its users, partners and advertisers in Russia. Google said that acquiring Begun will give advertisers access to a greater number of sites in the network, will give the owners of Web pages that convey more ads on their sites and will give users access to more advertising of more relevant websites.

In its 6 years of existence, ZAO Begun has sought and contextualized ads for advertisers and approximately 40,000 to a network of 143,000 pages in Russian language. Most of the company is Rambler Media, which said it had also signed an additional contract to use the technology in its Google AdSense main portal. Rambler said they would buy the remaining Begun to Bannatyne Ltd. and then what would sell everything to Google. Rambler said it expects to get $ 50 million of the deal.

It is hoped that the agreement with Google, which is subject to regulatory approval, closing during the third quarter of this year.