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Ars has learned from two separate sources, one inside the company and one outside of it, that Google is preparing to deliver a Chrome-focused operating system that targets netbooks.
 
Two separate sources—one inside the company and one outside it—have confirmed to Ars tonight that Google plans to launch an operating system built in some fashion around [...]

A new report shows Baidu.com increased its share of the search market in China’s top cities, while rival Google lost ground despite continued heavy investments in its Chinese operations.

Baidu has a 69.5 percent share of the search market in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, up 7.6 percentage points since last [...]

But Google is likely to be a far harder target than Encyclopaedia Britannica.
It’s been no secret that Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia’s founder, has been thinking it’s time for a new style of Internet search engine. He has made it plain in public remarks, in postings to electronic mailing lists, and elsewhere over the past six months [...]

SAN FRANCISCO — Internet icons Google and Yahoo are intensifying their efforts to become more accessible on mobile phones, a platform widely seen as the next big battleground for the longtime rivals.
The Silicon Valley foes underscored their commitments to the mobile market Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where they brandished [...]

Yahoo is building a new version of its Messenger communications service specifically for the Windows Vista operating system.
Yahoo Messenger for Vista will be previewed Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and will be launched in public beta during the second quarter. It offers the ability to resize the contacts window and to [...]

SAN FRANCISCO – 01/05/07 – Google, the world’s largest Internet search engine, and Xunlei Network Technology have reportedly forged a strategic partnership to serve telecom consumers in China, the world’s second-largest Internet market.
A Google spokesman declined to give details on the arrangement, but according to wire services, the China Daily reported that Google will team [...]

Software that generates a list of reading material tailored to a person’s individual interests has been developed by a PhD student in the US.
Alexander Wissner-Gross, a physics student at Harvard University, teaches a course to under-graduates student at his university. While preparing the reading list for his course, he began to wonder about ways to [...]

IBM and Yahoo are teaming up to offer a free data-search tool for businesses, a quirky move challenging Google and other corporate-search specialists in a blossoming market.
IBM already sells a business-focused search product, OmniFind, that lets organizations comb through internal documents. This free new edition of OmniFind will be limited in the number of documents [...]

NEW YORK — The online hangout MySpace got even more popular in November, beating Yahoo in Web traffic for the first time, a research company said Tuesday.
News Corp.’s MySpace recorded 38.7 billion U.S. page views last month, compared with 38.1 billion for Yahoo, according to comScore Media Metrix. MySpace’s growth was 2% over October and [...]

Google is allowing some of its existing online marketers to use its automated advertising system to broadcast ads on radio stations around the United States, the company said on Thursday.
The beta test of Google Audio Ads is the result of the integration of technology from Google’s acquisition of radio advertising company dMarc Broadcasting nearly [...]