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Info.com is a search engine that searchs simultaneously in Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and About. It can help us to save some time in web search

Seeking. You can't stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information. We are so insatiably curious that we gather data even if it gets us in trouble. Google searches are becoming a cause of mistrials as jurors, after hearing testimony, ignore judges' instructions and go look up facts for themselves. We search for information we don't even care about.

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt points out that it is unlikely to pay for the content as there are many free sources available on the Internet at a press conference in Sydney.

Google and IBM to donate computing wares to universities with the "hope of training a new breed of engineers and scientists to think in Internet scale".

"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", however, there is always a copyright concern around Google Book Search project.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time.

Social networking, is really about people as sensors.Google Social Search is designed to let searches return traditional results along with updates and tweets that users' friends and other people they follow on various social networks have posted.

Google announced more details about their upcoming online ebook service.

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An article about the 'misappropriation' of newspaper content by search engines such as 'Google,' and 'Yahoo.' The article explores the tensions arising between Newspaper companies, who suggest their content is being taken without compensation, and search engines, that are profiting from making the content available.

Lulu is a print on demand, self-publish book, ebook portal that makes possible for everyone to become a "Published author"

Robert McCrum: New Zealand has finally woken up to the copyright implications of Google's project to digitise the world's libraries. Should we?

Early this morning a coalition of authors, publishers and privacy advocates filed an objection to the Google search settlement case and surprisingly it had little to do with ...

Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google's attempt to create what could be the world's largest virtual library.

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