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Google is officially denying widespread Internet rumors that its Google Earth software located the mythical sunken city of Atlantis off the coast of Africa. Either that, or Google is totally trying to hide something. Since I always appreciate a nice juicy conspiracy theory, I'm going to go with the latter.

Last month we reported a potentially important change in search-market share trends: After years of steady decline, Yahoo's domestic share numbers (YHOO) had increased for five months in a row. Well, the good news continued in January, with Yahoo's share jumping a half-point to 21%, per Comscore.

A second phone based on Google's operating system Android is unveiled by Vodafone at the Mobile World Congress.

Google Inc will allow developers to sell applications for its Android cell phone operating system beginning next week in the United States.

The mobile version of Google Book Search gives would-be Amazon Kindle buyers another option for reading classic literature on-the-go.

Google has unveiled an expansion to Google Earth that includes large swathes of the world's oceans.

Google is hit by technical problems with users temporarily told all search results were potentially harmful.

Offline Gmail access is a product of Google Labs and will allow users to not only read and archive old emails but users will be able to compose emails that can be sent automatically the next time the computer connects to the internet.

Google just released fourth quarter earnings. Net Income was down a whopping 68 percent to $382 million (compared to $1.2 billion a year ago), primarily because of a $1 billion impairment charge related Google's ownership stakes in AOL (for which it took a $726 million writedown) and Clearwire ($355 million writedown).

Google slashes 100 recruiters and several Web services, including Google Video, Google Catalogs, Google Notebook, Dodgeball, Mashup Editor.