Quoted: Google Inc revealed on Monday that it had acquired a stake in Chinese community Web site Tianya.cn, indicating a foray by the global search leader into social networking in the world's second-largest Internet market.

Quoted: Yesterday, Google announced that its Personalized Homepage was going to become iGoogle--and today, it is. The Gadget Maker that lets you create content gadgets for iGoogle and share them with a few clicks is also live.

Quoted: Rumors of Facebook's refusal to sell to Yahoo set off a chorus of predictions that it would repeat Friendster's fall from grace.

Quoted: Google loves secrecy. That they've been acquiring fiber assets hasn't been a secret, but the sheer volume of these acquisitions HAS been. Why? One thought is that it kept down the price since people didn't really know it was Google snatching up this stuff (they've done it under a number of different corporate names). But if price was the issue, then why hasn't Google just bought the companies that own the fiber?

Quoted: Google Inc. displaced Yahoo! Inc. as the world's second-most visited Web site in November and closed in on leader Microsoft Corp., a market researcher said today.

have to try this out.

Quoted: Google introduced a mobile version of its Gmail email system Thursday, a day after the founder of its soon-to-be subsidiary YouTube predicted the user-generated video service would be available on mobile devices within a year.

A list of 15 websites that changed the world.

I didn't know Yahoo was an acronym.

Quoted: Yahoo! (an acronym for 'Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle') branched out into email, instant messaging, news, gaming, online shopping and an array of other services.

many of them are music related.