As the holiday season is approaching, Google has announced “Commerce Search,” its latest online service aimed at searching online stores for products and allowing users to perform advanced searches, sorting products by price and displaying descriptive information along with each item.

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The official newspaper of the Chinese communist party has accused Google of intentionally blocking access to its website by displaying an allegedly unnecessary malware warning telling its visitors that the site might contain malicious software, shortly after the newspaper published an article against Google’s practice of scanning books for its online repository sometimes without the author’s explicit consent. 

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Google and Facebook have recently revealed they will soon partner with online music streaming and digital store Lala to offer a service that will be competing with the giants of online music — namely Apple’s iTunes digital store and Amazon.

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The Mountain View, Calif. search giant recently announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair that it will launch “Editions,” its own online bookstore that will allow users to download books in an open format viewable directly from their browser, without the need for an ad-hoc reader, during the first half of next year.

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YouTube is currently making headlines as it announced earlier today that it is continuing its stable rise in traffic and just hit a landmark 1,000,000,000 daily views, three years after its controversial acquisition by Google.

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Several websites in China have recently reported the rumor that, despite announcing a few months ago that its operating system would only reach the consumer market in 2010, Google might have chosen to debut its long-awaited Chrome OS as early as next month.

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Earlier today, Google unveiled its ‘Quick Search Box’ for Mac OS X, an application that offers search functionality across users’ computer files and allows them to perform specific actions on the results based on their file extension.

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Earlier today, Google announced in an official blog post the release of Google Translator Toolkit, a new Web application that builds on the popular Google Translate that might facilitate the growth of sites like Wikipedia in its alternate language versions.

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Yahoo recently announced it is adding a number of third-party applications and widgets to some of its main properties, including Yahoo Mail and My Yahoo, that will allow users to, among other things, send a PayPal payment or publish a blog post without leaving Yahoo’s website.

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Google recently announced on its main corporate blog the release of an early development version of its Google Chrome browser for the Mac OS X and Linux platform. The software, however, is still rough around the edges and is meant for developers and early adopters only as it still doesn’t support a number of features, including Flash videos.

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Earlier today, the Google introduced “Squared,” a new Google Labs tool that should help users perform new kinds of Web searches, and particularly comparative search on a specific topic, in a significantly faster and easier way without forcing the user to manually pick and compare different bits of information from previous search results.

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After long preparations, Google recently announced that it will start selling downloadable e-books through an online store, in a move that would put the search giant in direct competition with the current market leader Amazon.com.

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Yahoo recently announced on its official blog that it will close its Yahoo 360 social networking site on July 13, as the Web company originally planned to do in early 2008 and later postponed a few times. Users will have to migrate to the Yahoo Profiles service by that date to maintain their account information.

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Earlier today, Google announced a new and easier way for webmasters to integrate many of its products such as Google News, Maps and others into their websites. The new platform, called “Web Elements”, was demonstrated today at the Google I/O conference held in San Francisco.

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