Real-Time Search Hailed as Google's Latest Game Changer
The world's biggest search-engine wows bloggers by adding a stream of live, up-to-the-second updates
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The world's biggest search-engine wows bloggers by adding a stream of live, up-to-the-second updates
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Bloggers trash the new operating system
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With $115 million on the table, Kai-Fu Lee's plans to start an angel investing firm in China have pundits asking whether it's a wise move
As Google continues to struggle with brain drain, its China chief resigns
Authors, academics, and anti-monopolists continue to fret over the plan to digitize the world's libraries.
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