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A Google search page is seen through the spectacles of a computer user in Leicester, central England July 20, 2007. (Darren Staples/Reuters)Reuters - Google Inc said it would shut down its three-dimensional virtual experience website by year end to focus more on its core search, advertisements and applications business.


">Google to shut down virtual world website (Reuters)

Google empowers users to edit search results (AP)

A Google logo. Google has bought a 75 hectare (185 acre) property in the north of Austria to erect a new European server farm within two years, the US Internet search engine giant said Thursday.(AFP/File/John D Mchugh)AFP - Google has bought a 75 hectare (185 acre) property in the north of Austria to erect a new European server farm within two years, the US Internet search engine giant said Thursday.


">Google picks Austria village for new European server farm (AFP)

T-Mobile's Web2go Will Use Yahoo's oneSearch (NewsFactor)

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer addresses the annual Microsoft shareholder's meeting Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008, in Bellevue, Wash. Microsoft Corp. is no longer interested in buying all of Yahoo Inc., Ballmer said Wednesday, though he told shareholders that the company would still be 'very open' to a collaboration on Internet search. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Microsoft Corp. is no longer interested in buying all of Yahoo Inc., CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday, though he told shareholders that the company would still be "very open" to a collaboration on Internet search. His comments sent Yahoo shares diving more than 20 percent.


">Ballmer dismisses Yahoo buyout but open on search (AP)

Google Will Shut Down 'Lively' Virtual World (PC Magazine)

Yahoo, T-Mobile announce mobile search deal (Reuters)

Microsoft Corp. chief executive Steve Ballmer, seen here in May 2008, on Wednesday ruled out making another takeover bid for Yahoo but said the US software giant remains open to a partnership on Internet search.(AFP/File/Samuel Kubani)AFP - Microsoft Corp. chief executive Steve Ballmer on Wednesday ruled out making another takeover bid for Yahoo but said the US software giant remains open to a partnership on Internet search.


">Microsoft CEO rules out another Yahoo takeover bid (AFP)

P&G, Google team up to swap jobs, trade knowledge (AP)

Google Will Make Life Photo Archive Searchable (NewsFactor)

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer speaks during a luncheon and conference on technology and innovation in Madrid April 25, 2008. (Susana Vera/Reuters)Reuters - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer ruled out an acquisition of Yahoo Inc on Wednesday but said his company was interested in resuming talks on a Web search partnership.


">Microsoft rules out buying Yahoo but likes search deal (Reuters)

A customer looks at a demo model of the new T-Mobile G1 phone during a launch party in October 2008 in San Francisco, California. Japan's top carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. aims to launch next year a cellphone developed with Internet search giant Google, an official said Wednesday, a move that could counter Apple's iconic iPhone.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AFP - Japan's top carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. aims to launch next year a cellphone developed with Internet search giant Google, an official said Wednesday, a move that could counter Apple's iconic iPhone.


">Japan's DoCoMo eyes 'Google phone' launch next year (AFP)

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer speaks during a luncheon and conference on technology and innovation in Madrid April 25, 2008. (Susana Vera/Reuters)Reuters - Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer on Wednesday said the company is "not immune" to "current economic realities". Highlights:


">Microsoft interested in search pact with Yahoo, not acquisition (Reuters)

China's Baidu.com fights to rescue reputation (AP)

A man shows the Apple iPhone. A new voice-recognition search tool for the iPhone has problems understanding British accents, leading to some bizarre answers to spoken queries.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)AFP - A new voice-recognition search tool for the iPhone has problems understanding British accents, leading to some bizarre answers to spoken queries, a newspaper report and users said Wednesday.


">iPhone sex: Google application baffled by British accents (AFP)

Google's Voice-Search App for iPhone Needs Refining (NewsFactor)

Jerry Yang Resigns, Yahoo Searching for a New CEO (NewsFactor)

Hands On: Google's Voice Search App for iPhone (PC Magazine)

Yahoo CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang speaks at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January 7, 2008. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)Reuters - Shares of Yahoo Inc soared 10 percent on Tuesday on hopes that the departure of Jerry Yang, its embattled chief executive, would clear the way for a deal with Microsoft Corp.


">Yahoo shares soar as Yang agrees to quit CEO post (Reuters)

Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban yells out from courtside during Game 5 of their NBA Western Conference quarterfinal playoff basketball against the Golden State Warriors game in Dallas, Texas, in this May 1, 2007 file photo. (Jessica Rinaldi/Files/Reuters)Reuters - Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, was charged with insider trading in the shares of search engine company Mamma.com, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday.


">SEC charges Mark Cuban with insider trading (Reuters)