London -- According to a report released by Experian Hitwise, indicates that for the first time ever Facebook trounced its biggest rival Google to become Britain's most visited web page on Christmas Day, accounting for 10.50% of all UK Internet visits on that day.

Washington-- comScore, Inc., a leader in analyzing the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. As expected, search engine titan Google snapped up a chunk of market share from rival search engines in the United States in November, new figures from comScore show.

November 2008 U.S. Core Search Rankings

Google Sites managed to pose a 0.4% increase with a total 63.5% while Yahoo’s sites recorded a drop by 0.1%, Microsoft 0.2%, Ask.com 0.2% and AOL LLC increased by 0.1%.

Search giant lets users show Gadgets on their websites
In the latest step in its continuing effort to focus the Web services model around its own servers, Google Inc. has expanded its Gadgets program making it easier for Web Developer to add hundreds of miniature programs to independent Web sites, in a move that brings handy features to users instead of making users rely on Google.com.

Online video is no longer just fun and games: You might actually learn something. Berkeley Campus Shares 100 Introductory Courses.

The University of California at Berkeley lately said that it is teaming up with Google to deliver dozens of videotaped educational content, including lectures, seminars, speeches, special events symposia and even entire courses taught by some of the campus’ leading professors, directly to students and the general public via Google Video free of charge.

Google has asked a federal judge in California to rule that Kai-Fu Lee's contract with Microsoft is unenforceable and that the researcher should be allowed to join Google unfettered by the terms of his employment deal.

The two rivals are locked in a legal dispute over the hiring of Lee. Google announced on July 19 that it was hiring Lee to head up a new research centre in China. The same day, Microsoft sued Google over Lee's hiring in Washington state court. Google countersued in a California state court, saying that the case should be heard there. Microsoft last month had the California matter moved to federal court in San Jose, California.

Mountain View, California - When Google+ was introduced, all that Google could brag about were Circles, the "revolutionary" new way of safeguarding your buddies in groups. But today, an elusive update to Google+ now claims to have made it easier for users to find their friends and colleagues who may have recently joined the social network. Google on Monday unfurled a new feature, - The Circles icon has now been renamed to "Find People."

Mountain View, California - Fat fingers have literally...burnt holes out of advertisers' mobile budgets. Well, how many times have you accidentally clicked on a mobile display ad, when you actually meant to hit the adjacent content on that tiny phone screen? With increasing number of touch screen devices over the past few years, mobile advertising has become a key marketing tool. Now, in order to avoid the untoward glitch, Google has launched a “confirmed clicks” attribute for all in-app image and banner ads on smartphones, in an effort to reduce the number of accidental clicks the ads attract.

Google has finally turned to its own advertising formulas, to promote itself. It seems Google wants to have a bite of its own advertising recipe. The search engine giant is one of the biggest advertising companies in the world, and the best part it, the company knows about it. Google, earlier in 2010 had embraced the advertising platform for the very first time, with a Super Bowl ad. But since then, there were a few real efforts focused to keep people reminded that Google services are being used by them in their day-to-day life and how further they can make use of it.