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Google confirmed on Tuesday that it fired an employee earlier this year for violating its policies on accessing the accounts of its users.

Google Inc.'s YouTube has launched a public test of a new live-streaming video service, the site's most ambitious foray into live programming.

Yahoo is redesigning its email service to help stem a user decline and counter offerings from longtime rivals Microsoft and Google as well as social-networking services such as Facebook and Twitter.

Tired of waiting the tenths of a second it takes to get Google search results? Google promises it'll get faster. The search giant on Wednesday introduced Google Instant, which will give users suggested results before they're even done typing.

Google Inc said on Friday it was the target of an investigation by the Texas Attorney General's office into the fairness of its search engine rankings.

Google Inc. will continue to provide the search results on AOL Inc.'s websites under a new, five-year deal the companies signed this week. The agreement largely reinforces an arrangement that has been in place between the two companies since 2005. But the new contract, announced Thursday, also expands their cooperation onto AOL sites for cell phones and other gadgets. And it will put AOL video content on Google Inc.'s YouTube site for the first time.

Alternative band Arcade Fire has collaborated with Google to make an interactive music video using HTML5 through Google Chrome.

The search giant's rumored foray into social networking has analysts and bloggers atwitter.

Already, Gmail serves as a control panel, an always-open tab, for the loyal Google user. It offers quick and simple access to our email, contacts, calendar, documents, chat and more. Soon, it may be home to a Web-based telephony client.

Having multiple accounts has been a pain for GMail users for a while. You have to log out of one account and log back in the next. Now, Google has introduced a way for you to link up to three accounts to your Google account, so you can sign in and switch between them at will - or even open a different tab for each account.