San Francisco -- Watch out Google! A band of smaller Internet rivals are forging alliance in hopes of jump-starting online local ad sales in the face of global search engine leader Google Inc.'s growing clout in the market, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Los Angeles -- The end-of-year backslapping continues today following latest statistics from Experian Hitwise which revealed that 2010 has witnessed social networking phenomenon Facebook officially usurp search engine behemoth Google as the most-visited Web site in the United States between January to November 2010, sucking up 8.93 percent of all Web traffic during that time, passing Google's search page for the first time.

San Francisco -- In the latest turn of events in a long-running possible class-action lawsuit about Google's parked domain program, a federal judge has ordained the search engine giant to reveal the identities of four AdWords advertisers who were clients of Internet marketing agency Wpromote.

New York -- It seems that the once innocent and well-meant start-up that is now known as Google is once again chomping its way through the internet is making waves as it pushes into new arenas. The Mountain-View, California-based search engine titan Google acquired the company that made it easy for travelers to compare airfares, ITA Software Inc., for $700 million price tag, which could give it a leading edge in the market for online travel search results.

Mountain View, California -- As the market for educational apps and software is rapidly escalating, search engine behemoth Google Inc. is reportedly in talks with educational software companies to help build a marketplace for online learning programs, and plans to sell their programs through its App Marketplace, an industry whose value may approach $5 billion this year.

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.

New York -- Google Inc., owner of the world's most popular search engine, on Wednesday disclosed that it has finally concluded the biggest real estate purchase of New York's 111 Eighth Avenue building as the company expands its presence in Manhattan, which will house its more than 2,000-strong workforce in the city, for a reported $1.9 billion.

Mountain View, California -- In an ironic twist it seems that another Googler has ditched Google for Facebook, but this one may hurt a little more than the others. Paul Adams, one of search engine giant's experienced researcher who, over the summer excoriated aspects of social networks in a popular slide deck, said today he will be heading to Facebook in the new year.

Bangalore, India -- India is one of the emerging country and so is the technology of the nation. It has established a substantial niche for itself on the global map for its advancement in information technology sector but that did not help it ward off Google's closure of its voice search experiment in India, which puts a question mark on the viability of search through automated voice responses.

Mountain View, California -- Inspired by the holiday spirit, and just when the year 2010 was coming to end, Google has decided to play Santa by extending its current phone calling offer for Gmail users in the US, permitting them to call landlines and mobiles in Canada and the US for free throughout 2011.

Mountain View, California -- Google Inc. and Beverly Hills, California-based MySpace, the social-networking website owned by News Corp., over the weekend endorsed a new multi-year search and advertising relationship under a long-term deal that no longer assures the social network lucrative guaranteed payments, according to a person familiar with the matter.

San Francisco -- For sites that are prone to vulnerabilities and cyber threats, and to help you keep tabs, global search engine leader Google over the weekend, expanded a program intended to prevent search engine users from visiting websites that could scam them or install malware on their computers with the following notification: “This site may be compromised,” the company said.

Mountain View, California -- Global search engine behemoth Google has quietly added a fascinating new feature to Google News -- "Follow News" option that empowers internet users the chance to bookmark articles from a particular site.

San Francisco -- One of the most pestering problems with synchronizing data between devices is the opportunity it presents for a major foul-up. Recovering contacts is always delightful and almost like meeting an old friend you were not in touch for a while. In a nod to human error, the Gmail software engineering team has added a crucial feature for the Google Contacts. Starting today, Gmail will let users reverse any changes they have made to their contacts over a 30-day period.

Mountain View, California -- Google is once again taking a cue from desktop speech recognition software, by adding a new service to the “cool but creepy” category. Voice search is an intriguing technology, but it can also produce some questionable results if you do not speak clearly. Global search engine behemoth Google, on Tuesday moved to improve those odds with the launch of personalized voice recognition profiles to Android's mobile Voice Search app, a feature that will basically learn your voice.

Mountain View, California -- Google continues to gobble up start-ups, and ramped up efforts in expanding services once again, acquiring Zetawire, a Toronto-based start-up company on mobile payments, a deal that supports its Near Field Communications (NFC) ambitions.

San Francisco -- Barely two months back, Google separated its Gmail application from its core Android OS, allowing it to update the program without relying on a full system. And of late, the global search engine leader Google has announced that the mobile web version of its Gmail for Android and iPhone is now localizations has been expanded to 44 languages in total.

Mountain View, California -- Striving to keep its products and services improved up to the minute, search engine behemoth Google recently added new editing capabilities to mobile Google Docs, enabling the writing and editing of text and spreadsheet documents, but a newly-enabled desktop mode now lets any iPad user get Google Docs on the go, for real.

San Francisco -- Last month, Google Instant, a novel feature that delivers search results in real-time as you type was launched on mobile in Beta, which was only for U.S. Today, the search engine titan Google announced that its Google Instant for Mobile (iOS and Android-based devices) is now available in 28 languages and in 40 countries worldwide, whereas the Beta only worked with English.

Mountain View, California -- Addressing a crowd of reporters and guests, search engine titan Google provided an update on its forthcoming browser-based operating system, Chrome OS, a fresh challenge to Microsoft's dominant Windows OS and emerging Linux, and invited attendees and select early adopters to try Chrome OS running on an unbranded netbook through a pilot program.