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InternetGoogle launches free music search service in China (AP)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008, www.yahoo.com

AP - Google Inc. said Wednesday that it has launched a music search service in China that allows users to access music legally online in a forum backed by some record labels and supported by advertising revenue.

LOS ANGELES - Google Inc. said Wednesday that it has launched a music search service in China that allows users to access music legally online in a forum backed by some record labels and supported by advertising revenue. Paid music downloads in China are virtually nonexistent, and Apple Inc.'s iTunes digital music store is not offered there. Downloadable pirated versions of songs are widely available for free online. Google's service, called Music Onebox, directs users to Top100.cn, a site that names as an investor basketball star Yao Ming, to download or stream music for free. Users outside China are blocked from accessing the music. Top100... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]


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InternetGoogle expands search appliance capacity (CNET)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008, www.yahoo.com

CNET - Google has expanded the capacity of its Search Appliance and made other improvements to the customized server that lets people search their companies' documents.

InternetNew Google box for offices can search 10 million files (Reuters)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008, www.yahoo.com

Reuters - Google Inc said on Tuesday it is an offering an upgraded version of the hardware appliance its sells to companies and government organizations for Google-style Web search of office documents.