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  1. The Google search page appears on a computer screen in Washington on August 30, 2010.
  2. Customers stand at a mobile phone shop displaying Nokia advertisements in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications, not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion, to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers Association of India, said the government wants everyone, including RIM, Skype, Google, Nokia and MSN Hotmail, to give Indian security agencies more access to their user content.
  3. Children play in front of a billboard for Samsung mobile in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications, not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion, to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype.
  4. This image made Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, shows the Google News website page. The Associated Press said Monday in a statement that Google Inc. will be able to continue posting content from the AP under a new licensing deal after months of negotiations.
  5. A banner is left on a sidewalk to wish Google well in Hong Kong on January 14, 2010. China declared its Internet 'open' but defended censorship that has prompted Web giant Google to threaten to pull out of the country, adding a potential new irritant in China-US relations.
  6. In this Aug. 19, 2010 photo, Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen is shown following an NFL football practice in Renton, Wash. Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire Allen is suing nearly a dozen major companies, including tech giants Google Inc. and Apple Inc., alleging they infringed on four Web technology patents held by his company Interval Licensing LLC. Interval said Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, it filed the suit in a U.S. District Court in Seattle against the companies. In addition to Google and Apple, the defendants named in the suit are: Facebook Inc., eBay Inc., Yahoo Inc., Netflix Inc., AOL Inc., Office Depot Inc., OfficeMax Inc., Staples Inc. and Google-owned YouTube LLC.
  7. A woman looks at the White House on Google street view in Washington on August 10, 2010. Google's online map feature that provides pictures of real-world moments at spots around the world has become a flash point for people worried about the erosion of privacy in the Internet Age.
  8. This screen grab taken from Google Earth shows a satellite image of the area around Greece, center. On New York's Long Island, it's used to prevent drowning. In Greece, it's a tool to help solve a financial crisis. Municipalities update property assessment rolls and other government data with it. Some in law enforcement use it to supplement reconnaissance of crime suspects. High-tech eyes in the sky _ from satellite imagery to sophisticated aerial photography that maps entire communities _ are being employed in creative new ways by government officials, a trend that civil libertarians and others fear are eroding privacy rights.
  9. A petition signed by over 300,000 people supporting Net Neutrality was presented during a protest at Google's headquarters. Mountain View, USA. 13/08/2010
  10. German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the first cabinet meeting after her three weeks summer vacations in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. The cabinet will discuss Google's upcoming launch of StreetView in Germany and the privacy concerns it has raised. German officials have been one of the harshest critics of the "Street View" program, which provides detailed photographs of neighborhoods taken by Google cameras.
  11. German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, left, and Interior Minister Thoman de Maiziere discuss prior to German government's cabinet meeting in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. The cabinet will discuss Google's upcoming launch of StreetView in Germany and the privacy concerns it has raised. German officials have been one of the harshest critics of the "Street View" program, which provides detailed photographs of neighborhoods taken by Google cameras.
  12. The spokesman of Google's European advertising, Ben Novick poses on August 4, 2010 at the Google's Paris office. Google shook up its lucrative online advertising service Wednesday, saying it would allow sellers to register other companies' brand names as search 'keywords' when shopping on the Internet. Google currently allows advertisers to demand their brand be deleted from the list of keywords that other companies pay to have linked to their websites to boost the chances their company will appear in online searches.
  13. Visitors sit on a bench at a lobby of an office of Google Korea in Seoul on August 11, 2010. South Korean police on August 10, searched the offices of Google Korea to investigate whether it breached privacy law in collecting information for its Street View service.
  14. Customers enter a mobile phone shop as a billboard of a BlackBerry phone is placed at the entrance in Calcutta, India, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. India may ask Google and Skype for greater access to encrypted information, once it resolves security concerns with BlackBerry, which is now under threat of a ban, according to a government document and two people familiar with the talks.
  15. A Chinese national flag flies in front of Google China's headquarters in Beijing in this January 14, 2010 file photo. Google Inc's Web search and mobile services in China were fully blocked on July 29, 2010, according to a message on the company's website.
  16. An Indian man checks his handset at a shop in Hyderabad, India, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. India may ask Google and Skype for greater access to encrypted information, once it resolves security concerns with BlackBerry, which is now under threat of a ban, according to a government document and two people familiar with the talks.

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