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How can I get this? Basically I think this is used y Google Mobile search and now I make it display on my Firefox browser. Read more »

Google has launched a free music download service in China intended to earn advertising revenue for artists in a country plagued with piracy.

The service poses a challenge to Baidu.com, which dominates China’s internet search market but has, along with other Chinese search providers, faced lawsuits charging that it facilitates copyright violations through downloads of unlicensed music.

Google says its service will initially let internet users search tens of thousands of Chinese songs by singer or song title on its website and download them from Top100.cn, a Chinese music website co-founded by basketball star Yao Ming.

Advertising revenue from the service will be shared among Top100.cn and its music partners.

“The internet industry should by no means stand in the opposite camp against the music industry,” says Google China president Kai-fu Lee. “Google always believes profoundly that mutual interest, rather than monopoly, is the key to sustainable growth.”

Downloads of unlicensed music and videos are rampant in China, the world’s biggest internet market by number of users.

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GOOGLE has detected more than a trillion unique URLs on the Web according to the outfit’s bog site. This number won’t stop there as they are growing at a steady rate of several billion pages per day. According to Google, they do not index every individual page out of the trillion figure, since “many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content.” said Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj, software engineers in Google’s Web Search Infrastructure Team.

How about Yahoo, Microsoft or ask.com? Are they going to fight back with the figure?

I would say that blogs have played a major role in hitting the one trillion mark. Well, what’s next after a trillion?
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Do you feel bored of Gmail (Google Mail) design? Let’s try this!

Look cool? Look better?

How about this one?

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Google Inc. showed off its nearly completed mobile Relevant Products/Services software system to about 3,000 computer programmers Wednesday, hoping to cultivate more services and advertising for people on the go.

Although brief, the demonstration at the Internet search leader’s annual developer conference in San Francisco represented the most extensive public look so far at “Android” — an open-source platform being designed for “smart” phones and other mobile devices that surf the Web. Android was first announced nearly seven months ago.

The new Google-powered mobile phone will be able to unlock the handset by drawing a secret shape on the screen.

The new ’signature unlocking’ tool was among the features revealed during a sneak preview in California yesterday.

Other highlights include a built-in compass that will allow people to orientate maps as they use their phone to scout out a restaurant or venue, and a customizable homepage that lets people bookmark their favourite web pages.

The device - which is unlocked by drawing a shape only the owner knows on a nine-square grid - will also include a magnifying tool, to make zooming in on web content easier on a small screen, and a mobile version of the game Pac Man.
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