But the early focus of the investigation suggests a potential threat to Google's plans to expand its commercial success beyond its current cash cow: the Web-search engine.
Again the work history has an overlap: During the same time that she was working for KIT Fortis, her profile says that she had founded her current venture, Russian-language real estate listing searchengine Domdot.ru (domdot.net for curious English speakers).
"Searches for World Trade Center at places such as MSN Search, Ask Jeeves and Yahoo, for example, brought back no listings relevant to the current catastrophe, " said Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngine Watch.
He also said the site would be almost pointless if it does not come equipped with a powerful searchengine that could scour federal Web sites with much more detail and power than currentsearch engines.