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Microsoft Bing Gains on Google - Microsoft Bing has gained some ground in the search engine war, according to the latest statistics from ComScore. The figures show that Microsoft gained 0.3%, while Google and Yahoo each dropped 0.1%. AOL moved to the bottom of the most popular five engines, losing 0.1% to take 2% of the market. "More than 16 billion explicit core searches were conducted in November," ComScore said in a statement. "Google sites ranked first with 10.6 billion searches, followed by Yahoo sites in second with 2.6 billion, and Microsoft sites in third with 1.9 billion." But despite Bing's recent successes, it has a long way to go before it can challenge Google, which was introduced a variety of features including Google Instant to help increase traffic. Microsoft Bing Gains on Google

Google Gravity I'm Feeling Lucky - Lots of people are becoming fascinated with the latest Google experiment that causes the Google search screen to collapse, as if being pulled under the weight of gravity. Google Gravity is a Google Chrome experiment made by Hi-Res! that initially loads a typical Google home page and then suddenly the elements are pulled down by gravity and you can start tossing them around! We highly recommend you launch this experiment in Google Chrome. It may run slower, or not at all, in other browsers. So many people have been trying this out that the keyword phrase of Google Gravity I’m Feeling Lucky, has entered Google Trends. Another little novelty that takes up a few seconds of our time and holds our interest for a short period, before we get on with our lives. Google Gravity I'm Feeling Lucky

EU Antitrust Probe Launced Against Google - The European Commission is investigating allegations that Google has abused its dominant position in online search to promote its other services, such as price comparators, the Commission announced Tuesday. The investigation will also look into alleged abuse of exclusivity clauses that discourage sites carrying advertisements served by Google from also carrying advertisements served by its rivals. PC manufacturers and software developers will also be questioned to see whether they were pressured by Google to make its search service the default in their products, the Commission said. Complaints from other search service providers sparked the investigation, it said. The companies told the Commission that Google treated their services unfavorably in its unpaid and sponsored search results. They also alleged that Google gave its own services preferential placement, the Commission said. The Commission is particularly concerned that Goog...

Google Gives Generous Raise To Employees - Google Raise – Recently, Google has decided to give an unprecedented 10% raise to each of its employees and a cash bonus of $ 1,000 for the holiday season. Google will pay all taxes on the bonus money and a trip that will eventually be the same as their target end of year bonus. Generate and holiday pay rates, which determine when Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.The CEO commented that he believes the pay is actually more important than other economic incentives, which are usually given away by larger companies. Google raise will effect from 1 January 2011. The internal memo states that all Google employees pay raise and will be sent detailed instructions for some of the changes that are made in relation to their annual bonus and total pay. Even for Google employees it is good news, Because it has more than 23,000 employees in total, it means a lot of money, about $ 23 million for premiums alone, which does not include VAT. Google Gives Ge...

Google Chrome OS Launching Soon - Google will sell a netbook based on its Chrome Operating System online similar to the way it sold its Nexus One smartphone, according to Digitimes. Chrome OS is a Web operating system Google is building to run on netbooks as an alternative to computers running traditional operating systems such as Microsoft's Windows and Apple's Mac. The platform, intended initially for netbooks sans local storage, will support Web applications running in Google's Chrome Web browser. Google introduced Chrome OS last November with a goal to have it running on netbooks by November 2010. Digitimes said Nov. 2 that the search engine will launch a Google-branded netbook built by Inventec through a Webstore online instead of through traditional retailers such as Best Buy. Shipments of this ARM chip-powered netbook will range from 60,000 to 70,000 units. Google declined to comment on what it deemed "rumor or speculation" from Digitimes, which ad...