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MSNBC
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Microsoft Corp. is offering cash rebates when people make purchases after using its search engine as the software maker begins to reveal how it plans to take on Google Inc. following the failure of its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo.
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MSNBC
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Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. are joining to offer alerts about potentially dangerous Web sites alongside search results generated at Yahoo.com.
With the new security feature — slated to take effect Tuesday — people who search the Internet using Yahoo..
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BBC News
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Yahoo and Google, the world's two biggest search engines, have announced a two-week experiment that will see them share advertising space.
During the pilot, Google will be able to place ads alongside 3% of search results on Yahoo's website.
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BusinessWeek
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The FTC ruled in Google's favor on Dec. 20, but the Web search giant still needs the approval of the EU's antitrust commission
Score one for Google. The Federal Trade Commission ruled Dec. 20 that it would not block Google's (GOOG) proposed $3.1 billio..
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BusinessWeek
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The king of search will bid alone at January's auction of wireless airwaves, but it's likely to need a partner to develop a network
Google is readying plans to make a big showing in a coming auction of wireless airwaves. And contrary to recent speculat..
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BBC News
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Search engine giant Google has seen its shares rise above the $600 mark for the first time, with investors confident ahead of third-quarter earnings.
Shares traded as high as $610.26 on Monday, before closing at $609.62.
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BBC News
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Popular social networking site Facebook has added a public-facing search function in a move which is likely to anger privacy advocates.
The function will initially allow anyone who is not registered with the site to search for a specific person.
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Los Angeles Times
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WHAT DOES Google want? Having successfully become our personal librarian, Google now wants to be our personal oracle. It wants to learn all about us, know us better than we know ourselves, to transform itself from a search engine into a psychoanalyst's co..
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Times Online
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There was encouraging news for the growing army of Google-haters yesterday when a leading internet advertising researcher suggested that the search engine’s stranglehold on online promotions was looser than he had expected.
Bill Tancer, a research an..
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BBC News
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Google has been told that it may be breaking European privacy laws by keeping people's search information on its servers for up to two years.
A data protection group that advises the European Union has written to the search giant to express concerns...
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New York Post
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Google is trying to clean up its search results by cracking down on dubious Web sites that contain little content but lots of ads.
The search giant has notified a number of Web publishers in the last few days that they will be dropped from its popular..
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MSNBC
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Google Inc. is going to start sharing more insights about what's on its users' minds by showing a daily list of the 100 hottest topics on its Internet-leading search engine.
The new rankings will be unveiled late Monday in an upgrade of Google's "trend..
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Washington Post
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A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Google did not infringe on the copyrights of an adult publishing company by displaying thumbnail images of its nude photographs, handing Internet search companies a victory by allowing the display of such minia..
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BBC News
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Google is overhauling its search system so it returns "universal" results not just those from webpages.
The change means users will also get results from news sites, blogs, video services and other relevant places.
Before now the different categorie..
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PC World
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A majority of Google shareholders today voted against an anti-censorship proposal that took aim at the way the search giant conducts its business in China and other countries that engage in active censorship.
The company received a large amount of crit..
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BusinessWeek
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An 11% decline in profits raises questions about Terry Semel's longevity and overshadows the expansion of the search engine's eBay partnership
Panama's patina has officially worn off. A disappointing first-quarter earnings report on Apr. 17 largely era..
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New York Times
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For much of this year, the buzz around Google has been all about the flurry of new initiatives at the No. 1 Internet search company, from its YouTube video sharing site, to its new software for office workers, to its forays into television, radio and news..
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BusinessWeek
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The search giant is rolling out a broad trial for advertisers, where they pay only if they get what they want
Google (GOOG) is trying to change the advertising game yet again. On Mar. 20, the king of pay-per-click search advertising said it would begin..
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Tech Crunch
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Palo Alto based startup SearchMe has kept a low profile since being founded in March 2005. The company, which has 17 employees and raised $5 million from Sequoia Capital over two rounds, will launch a number of what founder Randy Adams calls “long tail..
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The Register
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Google has quietly axed the web services API to its eponymous search engine. The stealth move was made without any announcement, but visitors to the page now receive a blunt message, backdated to 5 December, advising them that the SOAP API is no longer su..
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