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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) beat analysts expectations Thursday, posting an increase in net revenue of 4.5 percent and net income growth of 18 percent. The figures may back up reports from earlier this week that the search advertising market has largely stabilized, especially considering that the average cost-per-click was up compared to the first quarter. In [...]

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has officially announced it. And they are open sourcing it, as I suspected below: “Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the [...]

Americans conducted 14.3 billion searches at the five core search engines in May 2009, with nearly two-thirds (65%) of searches performed on Google, 20% on Yahoo and 8.2% on Microsoft Sites, according to comScore qSearch data.
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On its face, Twitter’s decision to put a search box on the right-hand column of all its user’s profile pages and to put query results on those pages as well seems like a bunch of search-world minutiae. But the blogosphere clearly thinks the news is important (Take a look at Techmeme)—and this [...]

It’s being reported from numerous technology news sources that Google is about to launch an application today that will allow the user to speak into an iPhone and receive search results. Initial reports are that there are some bugs with the system but that it generally works well.
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Perhaps the biggest threat to Google Inc. (GOOG)’s increasing dominance of Internet search and advertising is the rising fear, justified or not, that Google’s broadening reach is giving it unchecked power.
This scrutiny goes deeper than the skeptical eye that lawmakers and the Justice Department have given to Google’s proposed ad partnership with [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google and T-Mobile unveiled their answer to the iPhone on Tuesday, pulling the wraps off a slick mobile device that combines a touch screen and a keyboard and is aimed at putting the Internet in the pockets of millions of cellphone users.

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The T-Mobile G1 will [...]