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Google Inc. said Tuesday it will stop automatically routing users in China to its Hong Kong site after Beijing threatened the company with the loss of its Internet license in their latest skirmish over censorship.

One of the biggest dilemmas for print and mainstream media today is how to transition from a free-for-all model to one where its users actually pay for the content they consume. Should each site enact its own paywall, forcing users to purchase a subscription to just that site? How about a pay-per-article solution, which would still require a separate login for each publication?

If Google's famously sparse home page is too plain for you, the company is giving you some more options. A bold color photo of sand dunes replaced the white background to Google's search box Thursday. You can replace the desert ...

Web search engines make our lives easier: They connect us with what we're searching for in a matter of seconds, and sometimes they bring us to places we didn't even know we were looking for.

Google revealed for the first time how it splits advertising revenue with search and content publishers, a move made in response to calls from publishers and regulators for greater transparency.

Google is offering an encrypted option for Web searchers, meaning that users in regimes that monitor citizens' web habits may be able to conduct searches without governments knowing.

As the eerily familiar bleeps and bloops of video games past began eminating from my computer this morning, a friend nearby immediately recognized them and quipped that he'd spent "way too much time and brain cells playing that game".

That game is Pac-Man and it's featured in a playable Google Doodle for the next 48 hours on the Google homepage.

Google TV promises to integrate the Web and TV, but it relies on TV manufacturers to use its software.

Today is day two of Google I/O, Google’s developers conference. Yesterday, Google used its keynote.

Google said it plans to launch a store for online applications that run in its Chrome Web browser and operating system, the Internet giant's latest push to encourage developers to build software that runs online.