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A group of former Google employees headed by Nathan Stall who used to be the head of the project Google News are elabrating a new social search service.

Mechanical Zoo company that includes 12 former employees of Google is developing a special search application with the help of which users will search for answers to subjective questions resorting to the knowledge of certain circle of their acquaintances.

A 100 users are currently testing the new technology.

Japanese Internet bank eBank Corp entered the US market. The federal reserve gave permission to the Japanese firm to open a representation office in San Francisco.

Before that eBank Corp that renders services exclusively via Internet had the only office outside Japan - in Hong Kong. According to the Federal Reserve the Japanese bank won't attract deposits on the territory of the USA.

The eBank Corp assets are 6.1 billion dollars.

This innovation obviously remained unnoticed by most of the search engine Google users, but last week Google launched a universal search of addreses and companies. Other popular Russian-language search engines don't have such feature yet.