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Google's share of the search market declined last month, but it's still comfortably the world's most popular search engine at 56.3 percent of the market.  Yahoo's market share also dropped slightly to 17.7 percent.  Microsoft's market share increased nearly two points to 13.8 percent.

(Link:  Google's share of search market falls, Nielsen says at SilliconValley.com)

Maybe the Internet won't kill newspapers after all.  "U.S. newspapers' online audiences grew about 6 percent last year, an industry group reported Thursday, a rare bit of good news for an industry struggling to adapt as readers and advertising dollars continue to migrate online."

(Link:  Newspapers See More Online Users in '07 at WTOPnews.com)

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