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Google (GOOG) co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are relinquishing some of their control over the Internet search leader ...

The December 2009 global search stats are out from comScore and unsurprisingly Google took the top spot for total worldwide searches last month, with 87.8 billion searches over Google sites. Google's searches rose 58 percent from December 2008's searches, which totaled 55.6 billion searches.

China today rejected U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's call for lifting restrictions on the Internet in the communist country, denouncing her criticism as false and damaging to bilateral ties.

Google's fourth-quarter earnings soared as the Internet giant posted strong growth in advertising clicks and avoided big charges that weighed down prior-year results.

Apple and Microsoft are reportedly in talks to make Microsoft's Bing the default search engine on the iPhone. So long Google!

Human rights and business groups are among those cheering the move to stop cooperating with censors.

Search engine's threat to pull out of China over censorship puts government in awkward position.

It's official: Google Inc. will sell its own mobile phone in an effort to protect its online advertising empire as people increasingly surf the Web on handsets instead of personal computers.

How does Google's own Android phone stack up against the model already on the market? Let's look at the facts (so far). For the past two months, Verizon Wireless's Droid by Motorola has had the privilege of holding the undisputed title of Coolest ...

The buzz around realtime search of social networks has mostly surrounded Twitter and Facebook. Collecta, OneRiot and the search giants, including Microsoft, Google and Yahoo all tap into Twitter (and Facebook too) to capture the realtime stream of content. But MySpace is also getting into the game, recently releasing a set of real-time APIs that both OneRiot and Google will be tapping into to provide content from the social network. Today, real-time search engine Collecta has launched a search platform that offers a real-time view into MySpace.