Google changes tune, search still working in China (AP)

The Google logo is reflected in the windows of the firm's China offices in Beijing. Google's services in China were fully or partially blocked on Thursday with the exception of its email service, Gmail.(AFP/File/Li Xin)AP - Google says its search engine and several other services are working normally in mainland China after previously reporting the service had been completely blocked.



Google says China search block may be tech glitch (Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc said its earlier report that Internet search services in China were being fully blocked could have been the result of a technical glitch that overstated the problem.

Analysts' View: Google says search service blocked in China (Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc said its Web search and mobile services in China were blocked on Thursday, weeks after Beijing agree to extend the company's Chinese webpage license.

Sleazy Marketers Game Google's Sponsored Ads (PC World)
PC World - Companies that deal in shady free gift card offers have managed to game Google's sponsored search results so they can pass themselves off as representing the official sites of such huge brands as Walmart, Best Buy, McDonald's and Hooters, among others, PCWorld has found.

Watchdog sees no problem with Yahoo! Japan-Google deal (AFP)

Masahiro Inoue, president of Yahoo Japan, 40 percent of which is owned by Masayoshi Son's Softbank, speaks at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on July 27. Japan's fair trade watchdog said Wednesday it saw no monopoly problem with a search alliance between top Internet portal Yahoo! Japan and Google, Kyodo News reported.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AFP - Japan's fair trade watchdog said Wednesday it saw no monopoly problem with a search alliance between top Internet portal Yahoo! Japan and Google, Kyodo News reported.



Can Ask.com's New Search Strategy Work? (PC World)
PC World - Ask.com hopes it's found the answer to increasing its market share -- and no, the plan doesn't involve a butler named Jeeves.

Microsoft condemns Yahoo! Japan-Google alliance (AFP)

Attendees try an interactive display at the Microsoft booth at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, in January 2010. Microsoft on Tuesday denounced Yahoo! Japan's Internet search alliance with Google, saying it would give Google near-total control over the third-largest market for search queries in the world.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)AFP - Microsoft on Tuesday denounced Yahoo! Japan's Internet search alliance with Google, saying it would give Google near-total control over the third-largest market for search queries in the world.



Yahoo Japan Spurns Bing in Favor of Google Search (PC World)
PC World - Google has secured a deal to provide search results and related advertising to Yahoo Japan, Japan's most popular Web site, the two companies said Tuesday.

Microsoft Cries Foul Over Google Tie-up With Yahoo Japan (PC World)
PC World - Yahoo Japan's decision to replace Microsoft with Google as its main search partner has been met with protest from Microsoft, which called the deal "anticompetitive."

Summary Box: Yahoo Japan to use Google search (AP)
AP - THE REPLACEMENT: Yahoo Japan Corp. will use Google technology rather than Yahoo Inc.'s to run its search engine and search ad delivery system.

Yahoo Japan to use Google search tech, not Yahoo's (AP)
AP - Yahoo Japan Corp. will use Google technology to run its search engine and search ad delivery system, after a similar deal in the U.S. was derailed by regulators concerned about a monopoly.

Yahoo Japan to switch to Google's search engine (Reuters)
Reuters - Yahoo Japan, Japan's largest Internet portal operator, will adopt Google's search engine, refusing to follow Yahoo Inc in choosing Microsoft as a partner.

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