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New data shows that Google's share of the global online search market slipped in the second quarter, largely due to the company's troubles trouble in China. Has the Internet giant's search business peaked?

In an extraordinary blog post, Frank Shaw presses a case for the company's primacy in tech -- clearly a reaction to its many critics and skeptics on Wall Street, given that Microsoft's share price is less than half what it was in 1999.

Pakistan plans to monitor Google and its YouTube site, as well as Yahoo, Amazon, and Microsoft's MSN, Hotmail and Bing for anti-Islamic content, saying it will block links to certain content on those sites if it deems it necessary.

An unknown number of Yahoo! e-mail accounts have been hacked in China and Taiwan.

Microsoft criticized Google for failing to adequately respond to a recent European Commission investigation into its market share and practices. In a blog post, Microsoft's deputy general counsel wrote that Google is trying to place the blame on Microsoft, rather than take responsibility for its own actions.

Yahoo has put the sale of its small-business unit on hold after finding a shortage of interest, DailyFinance has learned. As part of its drive to shed non-core properties, Yahoo had started looking to sell the unit, which provides Internet services to small-business clients, last summer.

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Yahoo was drawn into the growing cyber-war between Google and the Chinese government after it declared its support of the U.S.-based search giant. Google threatened to pull out of China after it became the victim of a massive cyber attack that is believed to be masterminded by the Chinese government.

Yahoo's Carol Bartz gave herself a "B minus" when Bloomberg News asked her to grade her first year running the Internet portal. Later this month, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company's earnings report will provide more data to test that evaluation.

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