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Google views Web games as a key part of its strategy to take on Facebook. Instead of confronting its rival head on, Google is assembling building blocks -- such as email, music and games -- now and hoping to connect them later.

It's the $20 billion question: What is to be done about the recording industry? Since it appears that the players inside that industry do not know how to save themselves from implosion, outsiders are looking to chart a new course toward sustainability and profitability. Now, Google (GOOG) is...