China warned Google, the world's largest search engine, against flouting the country's laws on Friday

China warned Google, the world’s largest search engine, against flouting the country’s laws on Friday, as expectations grow for a resolution to a public battle over censorship and cyber-security.The chief executive of Google, Eric Schmidt, said this week he hoped to announce soon a result to talks with Chinese authorities on offering an uncensored search engine in China.

“Google has made its case, both publicly and privately,” China’s Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Li Yizhong, said, but did not confirm directly that his ministry was in talks with Google.Google in January threatened to pull out of China if it could not offer an unfiltered Chinese search engine, after cyber attacks originating from China on it and about 30 other firms.”If you don’t respect Chinese laws, you are unfriendly and irresponsible, and the consequences will be on you,” Li told reporters, in answer to a question on what China would do if Google.cn simply stopped filtering search results.Li complimented Google on having reached about 30 percent market share in the Chinese market since it launched google.cn about three years ago, and said it was welcome to expand market share further if it abided by Chinese law.

It was up to Google whether to stay in China’s market or not, he added.Ministry officials have wavered between confirming and denying that talks are happening at all, in response to repeated media questions during China’s annual legislative session.

“This is really a hot topic, it’s easy and yet not easy to respond. A lot of these matters don’t fall under my ministry, ” Li said.The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shares oversight of the Chinese Internet with a number of other bodies, while still more bureaucracies are involved in matters of foreign investment, complicating the Chinese government’s response to Google’s challenge.(Reuters)

Google officials, to reduce the cost of electricity that had been consuming a large cost. They also want to reduce carbon pollution

Google officials, to reduce the cost of electricity that had been consuming a large cost. They also want to reduce carbon pollution. “We want to buy high-quality energy and environmentally friendly as possible, said an official Google. Google’s rumored to want to use electricity from solar energy.Since December they began to plunge into the energy business. December and then they set up subsidiaries to buy and sell electricity to large parties. This January, they have asked permission to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to enter the market.

Earlier, in the United States had come the news that Google will sell retail electricity. Moreover, previously, Google has issued a software PowerMeter. This is the Internet-based software that can measure electricity use home or business. Through this tool they can also know what equipment is wasteful electricity.

Google’s current business is not just the Internet. We have stretched from the phone business, a map, until the electricity. In the mobile phone business, for instance, they make the Android software and make phone Nexus One. They also challenge Microsoft by creating a free word processor that is used throughout to connect to the internet.

Google launches translation service menu for easy ordering foreign tourists

BARCELONA Google launches translation service menu for easy ordering foreign tourists. In everyday life, often occurs a tourist who only speak English to order the wrong food when visiting a restaurant in Germany. For example, it could have forced tourists to face the heart of a bowl of hot soup that tastes sour beef. To overcome this, Google provides the solution. In the event Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2010, Google’s new exhibit translator technology. That translates menus foreign foods instantly through an application on smart phones. Reported by the Telegraph, Friday (19/2/2010) early prototype created by Google is currently only able to translate German into English. Google plans to expand this service in order to support 52 languages. “Imagine you are a traveler who enters a restaurant, where there is only menus that do not understand. You must be confused ordering food,” said Google Product Marketing Manager, Andrew Gomez.

This translation service menu is a further development of the feature ‘Goggles’ Google. This feature allows users to search the web without having to type in the word, but only to show the phone to an object. This software uses optical character recognition technology to scan the written word and turn it into computer text which is then translated into the Google Translate service. “This service is still early stages. We want to introduce the first demo. We want to show how great your phone when connected with this technology,” said Gomez.

antitrust regulators are taking a closer look at Google Inc.'s

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SAN FRANCISCO  U.S. antitrust regulators are taking a closer look at Google Inc.’s proposed $750 million purchase of mobile phone marketer AdMob, the latest sign of greater government vigilance as Google tries to expand its advertising empire.The Federal Trade Commission sought more information about the deal this week, according to a Wednesday post on Google’s blog.This so-called “second request” doesn’t mean regulators intend to block Google’s AdMob deal. Most other acquisitions that go through this stage end up getting approved.But the FTC’s action shows regulators are watching Google more carefully as the company tries to build upon its dominance of the Internet’s lucrative search advertising market. Google is expected to pull in more than $22 billion in revenue this year, mostly from ads shown alongside search results and other Web content.

“We know that closer scrutiny has been one consequence of Google’s success,” Paul Feng, a Google product manager, wrote in Wednesday’s blog posting. Echoing previous management comments, Feng said the company remains confident its AdMob purchase, announced last month, will be approved.Google’s huge lead in Internet search triggered a 2008 government investigation that scuttled its plans to enter into an advertising partnership with rival Yahoo Inc., which runs the second most-popular search engine. Yahoo plans to work with Microsoft Corp. instead, beginning next year if those two companies can gain regulatory approval.

Since its inception nearly four years ago, AdMob has built a thriving network that sells and delivers ads on applications and Web sites designed for the iPhone and other mobile devices. It’s still relatively small with estimated annual revenue of $45 million to $60 million, but regulators apparently want to understand whether its technology and advertising contacts would give Google an unfair advantage in its quest to sell more mobile phone ads.

Google management has indicated that it believes mobile marketing eventually may become bigger than advertising on Internet-connected computers. That tipping point still appears to be many years away, with U.S. mobile advertising expected to total $416 million this year, about 2 percent of overall Internet ad spending in the country.

The FTC’s decision to take more time digging into the AdMob deal means Google probably won’t be able to take over the company for several more months, Stifel Nicolaus analyst Rebecca Arbogast wrote in a Wednesday research note. It took a year for the FTC to approve Google’s $3.2 billion acquisition of Internet ad service DoubleClick Inc., which was completed in March 2008.

Google’s first big deal, a $1.76 billion acquisition of the video site YouTube, was cleared by regulators in a month in 2006.
Separately, Google ran into another potential roadblock Wednesday after another takeover target, On2 Technologies Inc., said that it still hadn’t collected enough shareholder support to close its deal. On2, based in Clifton, N.J., adjourned a shareholder meeting to approve its $106 million sale to Google until Feb. 17 in hopes of getting the necessary support.Google, which is based in Mountain View, agreed to buy On2 in August to help improve YouTube’s video technology.