Currently there's talk at Virgin of splitting up with NTL, the British cable company that's a 49% partner in Virgin Net, an Internet search portal.

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This week's planned sales of shares in companies such as AltaVista, an Internet search-engine, and Yupi Internet, a Spanish-language website, were postponed.

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Max Mosley is suing Google in France and Germany in an attempt to force the internet company to monitor and censor search results about his alleged sado-masochistic orgy.

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After the disclosure of the high-profile attack on Google and other big companies last fall, word quickly leaked out that the flaw used to compromise the search giant was an unpatched problem in Internet Explorer.

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An admittedly unscientific quest for "Donald Draper" on an Internet people-search engine netted 249 names in the United States.

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Written by Suranga Chandratillake, the founder and chief strategy officer of blinkx, an Internet search engine for video and audio content in San Francisco.

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As a skeleton key for the Internet, Google in five years has grown from an academic exercise in search of better ways of finding stuff on the Web into a prodigious advertising business beloved by users, sought by a hundred thousand advertisers, coveted by Wall Street and envied--or reviled--by a swarm of rivals.

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Google, an internet giant that has been scanning and digitising books for inclusion in its search engine, now offers thousands of books that are in the public domain free on mobile phones.

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In areas like Internet search, social networking and smartphone software, Microsoft holds the humbling position of an also-ran.

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