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Google Inc. today released a preview of its upcoming Google Wave collaboration and communication tool to about 100,000 users and developers.

US Internet giant Google is ready to begin buying up other companies again as the world economy begins to recover.

Google has just launched the DoubleClick Ad Exchange, and it is just like AdWords and AdSense, except that it is a marketplace for display

Google has a giant target on its back. Microsoft has been on a spending and deal-making spree to grow Bing, recently signing a huge search deal with Yahoo.

Google launched a suite of "social gadgets" for iGoogle, including games, shared to-do lists, and video-sharing on YouTube.

Google Inc. is hatching a new species of e-mail and instant messaging, but the Internet search leader first wants the hybrid service to evolve even more with the help of independent computer programmers.

"Although revenue per click (RPC) weakness may persist through the second quarter and possibly into the third quarter, we think the trend will reverse by the fourth quarter and restore Google's revenue growth to 14 percent year over year," analyst Jeffery Lindsay said in a note to clients.

Eleven research awards have been granted to universities under the auspices of the Google and WPP Marketing Research Awards Program, which was announced by both companies in the fall of 2008. An impressive field comprising of more than 120 entries were received by the deadline for proposals.

On Wednesday, the two companies plan to unveil the first round of studies

The search engine giant launches a technology to better understand what people are looking for. It also will give longer snippets after the search title, with relevant words in bold.