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• Google and AOL renew long-term partnership

  Google and AOL have renewed a long-term partnership that gives AOL Web properties access to Google search and advertising services.

• Microsoft's big Bing theory targets Google

  With Microsoft and Yahoo officially teaming up in the search market this week, it's time to wait and see if this move could eat into Google's hearty lead over its top opponents.

• Google improves real-time search engine

  Google's real-time search engine, which indexes and serves up status updates, messages and other public content from sites like Twitter and Facebook, now has its own Web address and contains new filtering capabilities.

• Google improves real-time search engine

  Google's real-time search engine, which indexes and serves up status updates, messages and other public content from sites like Twitter and Facebook, now has its own Web address and contains new filtering capabilities.

• Ring! It's Gmail's new voice feature calling

  Google announced Wednesday it is offering the ability to make phone calls over the Internet via its popular Gmail service.

• Cameron Diaz tops malware bait list

  Cameron Diaz is the most dangerous celebrity on the Web, antivirus company McAfee said Thursday.

• Google buys visual shopping engine Like.com

  Google has acquired Like.com, which offers a visual search engine for retail products, a deal aimed at boosting Google's shopping search capabilities and services like its Products engine.

• Search Monkey falls victim to Yahoo-Microsoft search deal

  As it starts transitioning to Microsoft's Bing search engine this week, Yahoo has decided to drop Search Monkey, a developer platform designed to let external coders create applications that enhance Yahoo search results.

• Google CEO: Change Your Name to Escape Our Watchful Eye

  Google is often accused of behaving like Big Brother, and Google's CEO Eric Schmidt isn't doing much to dispel those perceptions.

• Net neutrality supporters to protest at Google HQ

  Five left-leaning groups that want the U.S. government to create formal network neutrality rules are organizing a rally to protest a recent proposal by Google and Verizon Communications at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, Friday.

• Google, Verizon make net neutrality proposal

  Google and Verizon Communications have released a proposal that would give the U.S. Federal Communications Commission limited power to enforce network neutrality rules, including levying fines up to US$2 million for violations by broadband providers.

• Google: 129 million different books have been published

  For those who have ever wondered how many different books are out there in the world, Google has an answer for you: 129,864,880, according to Leonid Taycher, a Google software engineer who works on the Google Books project.

• Google's march toward social networking

  Google this week confirmed its acquisition of online entertainment company Slide. The purchase rehashed speculation that the search giant is interested in working its way into social media, possibly with a game-centered service called Google Me."

• Baidu looks to expand overseas

  Baidu, China's largest search engine, is looking to expand its business overseas and is preparing to invest internationally, the company's chief executive said on Thursday.

• New Google site blocked in China

  A newly launched Google site for Chinese users appears to be blocked in China just days after it went online.