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Google's interests are perfectly aligned with a free and open Web. That's its brilliance. Google dominates the Web platform. The more you use the Web, the more likely you are to use its hugely popular search products, and the more ads Google will sell, targeted at you. It doesn't really matter which browser you use to get there - Internet Explorer, Firefox or Google's house browser, Chrome - as long as you use Google Search, Maps and any of the other suite of fine, free Google products...
...first real threat Google faced was Facebook. That's because when people are on the popular social network, they aren't using Google Search. Even worse, instead of asking Google Search where they should eat tonight, they're asking their Facebook friends. And the more of their personal stuff (pictures, videos and so on) they put behind Facebook's closed doors, the worse it is for Google, which also owns YouTube. That's why Google has attempted (so far, with limited success) to get into the social-network business.(See the 50 best websites...
...July 4, Casey Kasem counted down the hits one last time. Thirty-nine years to the day after he premiered his American Top 40 program - playing the most popular songs, calling out listeners' long-distance dedications and paving the way for the American Top 20 and American Top 10 spin-offs - the velvet-throated DJ with the unmistakable voice has turned off his mike for good. "Hosting various versions of my countdown program has kept me extremely busy, and I loved every minute of it," Kasem, 77, said in a statement. "However, this decision will free up time I need...
...online auction site eBay, a popular venue for people to sell off coveted tickets like these to the highest bidder, announced that it would remove any postings concerning Michael Jackson memorial tickets in an effort to combat scalpers. On the site on Monday night, the only items available under "Michael Jackson Memorial" were T shirts. Still, organizers admitted they couldn't completely stop the blatant profiteering. "For those who take advantage of this," promoter AEG's CEO Tim Leiweke said last week, "shame on you." (See pictures of Jackson's Neverland Ranch...
...Reaction in China outside of Xinjiang has been muted thus far, largely because - as is usual with issues considered sensitive by the authorities - major Chinese websites have removed or shut down readers' comments, a traditional channel for the Chinese to weigh in on current affairs. On mitbbs.cn, a popular online chat room frequented by overseas Chinese, responses reflect a rush of nationalism. "We must spare no violence to unify our nation," writes one netizen named "welltwo." "I support tough military crackdown," says another. "They [the rioters] deserve no explanation." Meanwhile, news about an information lockdown in Xinjiang has been widely...