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Google said it was responding to the phenomenal popularity of free music downloads in China, one of the few markets where the company lags, by forming an alliance with the music industry.

The Internet giant's search engine could make Web site design and navigation obsolete.

Likaholix is a brand new web service that lets you share personal recommendations about virtually anything with the world.

Last month we reported a potentially important change in search-market share trends: After years of steady decline, Yahoo's domestic share numbers (YHOO) had increased for five months in a row. Well, the good news continued in January, with Yahoo's share jumping a half-point to 21%, per Comscore.

Watch out Google and Facebook. Twitter has no revenue and no business model, but it could soon be highly disruptive.

Google has unveiled an expansion to Google Earth that includes large swathes of the world's oceans.

Google is hit by technical problems with users temporarily told all search results were potentially harmful.

Offline Gmail access is a product of Google Labs and will allow users to not only read and archive old emails but users will be able to compose emails that can be sent automatically the next time the computer connects to the internet.

Google just released fourth quarter earnings. Net Income was down a whopping 68 percent to $382 million (compared to $1.2 billion a year ago), primarily because of a $1 billion impairment charge related Google's ownership stakes in AOL (for which it took a $726 million writedown) and Clearwire ($355 million writedown).

Google slashes 100 recruiters and several Web services, including Google Video, Google Catalogs, Google Notebook, Dodgeball, Mashup Editor.