Earlier this week, consulting firm Marbridge in Beijing said that Baidu was toying with the idea of buying an English language search engine.

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Similarly, English outfit No Internal Combustion Engine (NICE, very cute) is previewing an all-electric sports car that it plans to show off at the London Auto Show in July.

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Ask Jeeves began as a search engine to answer plain English questions, with its staff diligently anticipating what would be asked.

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In 1913, Rudolf Diesel, French inventor of the diesel internal combustion engine, disappeared and presumably drowned in the English Channel.

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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 search engine Domdot.ru (domdot.net for curious English speakers).

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