Mountain View, California -- Think of it as an old-fashioned circulation war in the digital age, substituting tablets for tabloids. Global search engine leader Google Inc has approached several newspaper and magazine publishers to garner support from for creating its own digital newsstand, in a move that could open a new frontier in the Internet company's rivalry with Apple Inc., which already sells digital versions of many major magazines and newspapers through its iTunes store, according to a news report.

San Francisco -- The team at Google Labs last summer introduced a new service dubbed as Google City Tours, one of the ongoing projects by Google Labs team that has tweaked the interface that generated a tour of various attractions near a location including real walking directions and My Maps integration within walking distance of the starting point--making it more friendly as to how people actually vacation: head to a city, pick places to go, and get precise directions to them.

It fine tuned the service as it still had some rough edges, but it proved useful enough to become quite popular. It had a few major catches, though some of which have since been rectified by the developers team which is now providing an update on their progress.

New York -- Soon before Christmas traffic statistics start pouring in; it is amazingly a rare occasion when we stumble upon news of this height, especially, even without those numbers, Google’s Product Search engine is reportedly catching up with big time rivals in the comparison shopping market instead of leading ahead of them.

Well, if we look at comScore’s November data on the comparison shopping market wherein Google’s Product Search managed to post a growth of 786% in November 2008 as compared to last year dismal performance -- the biggest one-year increase by far of any online comparison shopping service, says market tracker comScore. An astounding growth extending through November has the service putting its rivals to shame.

Google and China.com have expanded their partnership to place Google search engine technologies on more China.com Web sites…

Beijing -- China.com, a leading Internet services provider in China and a Hong Kong listed subsidiary of CDC Corporation, announced today Google will provide its leading search engine technologies to more China.com sites that will further enhance the search experiences for users in China.

The two companies originally partnered in 2006 to feature Google Web search, ASF (AdSense For Search) and AdSense on China.com’s traditional Chinese and English sites...

Google is venturing into new Internet waters -- again.

Google’s quest to conquering the web rages on… How? Why, of course, by launching yet another web-based service. This time, it is something really beefy and it is likely to cause quite some fuss.

The search giant officially launched Google Page Creator to beef up its ever-evolving Web-based toolbox. Google's new service will compete with products from Apple, Adobe, Microsoft and MySpace...

Debate is growing over whether Google poses a viable threat to Microsoft's dominance of the personal-computing sector.

Over the past 10 years, the Web system has certainly rigidified. To the point that in 2005, Microsoft sees Google, the bigco most likely to roll out a WebMachine, as the major threat it's feared all along.

London -- In a surprising turn of events, besieged with an epidemic of phishing attacks on its academic networks, Oxford University took drastic measures: It decided to temporarily block access to Google Docs for 2.5 hours on Monday, after a dramatic increase in phishing attacks trying to harvest academic email credentials using bogus forms hosted on the service and has said Google should share some of the blame for the outage.

Mountain View, California -- In a fresh move, the kind-hearted folks over at Google must be looking forward are extending the goodwill amongst its popular Gmail user base that it has in store for them for the next year by being nice to millions of people living in the US and Canada, as Google on Wednesday said that free Google Voice calls via Gmail, allowing you to perform free domestic calls through the year of 2013 within the US and the Great White North, making it a snap to connect with friends and family scattered all over.