Indians Again!

Many would have wondered is it possible to take on Google or atleast to start thinking in terms of Google (Alias: Search Engine).

But there are two Indian guys itching to take on Google with their Kosmix revolution. Interestingly both these guys went to Stanford with Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan two of the co-founders at Junglee which was later sold out to Amazon, twice seriously considered acquiring Google in its early days, but decided their friend Brin was too bold, if not arrogant, to deal with. They'd wanted to approach Sergey Brin, who was in early days forming Google with Page, and considered talks to acquire Google. Rajaraman recalls how Google was still not very big, employing only around 50 people: "And we kind of asked, at that point, 'Sergey, if Amazon were to buy you guys, what sort of price would you sell for?" I remember Sergey telling me: 'The only kind of price we'd accept would be something with ten digits [billions].' If he'd said nine digits, we might have talked."

Interesting to hear isn't it? more....