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Correction at 5:50 a.m. Monday: This story had an incorrect total for U.S. searches in November. The total was 12.3 billion.

Google grabbed a chunk of market share from rival search engines in the United States in November, new figures from ComScore show.

Google's share increased 0.4 percentage points to 63.5 percent from October to November, while Yahoo dropped 0.1 percentage points to 20.4 percent and Microsoft dropped 0.2 percentage points to 8.3 percent.

Further down the pecking order, Ask.com dropped 0.2 percentage points to 4.0 … Read more

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Yahoo shareholder and director Carl Icahn went shopping for a pre-Thanksgiving deal, when he snapped up an additional slug of Yahoo stock, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

But as easy as it was to scoop up nearly 7 million additional shares, Icahn noted in his SEC filing there is nothing in his post proxy-fight settlement with the company that prevents him from dumping his position or hedging his bets.

The Reporting Persons acquired the Shares referenced in Item 5(c) below from November 24, 2008 through November 26, 2008, because they believed that the shares were undervalued. … Read more

Though the FCC has paid plenty of attention to the limiting of peer-to-peer traffic on wired networks, wireless providers with similar policies as Comcast have largely flown under the radar. That could change under an Obama administration, says CNET News' Declan McCullagh.

Also on today's podcast: Microsoft not interested in Yahoo anymore, Yahoo's stock plummets, Lenovo earnings plunge, Obama names a policy advisory board with two familiar tech world names, and Windows 7 news from WinHEC.

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Dems' win could herald wireless Net neutrality

Windows 7 knows where you are… Read more

No doubt, it's been a doozy of a year for Jerry Yang & co.

Yahoo could have been sold for $33 per share to Microsoft back in the spring; now it's trading at less than $12. Internet advertising may be in for a rough patch, along with the rest of the economy. And morale at the Internet pioneer, well, just isn't what it used to be.

With that in mind, we thought it would be helpful to create a handy list for Yahoo watchers to keep in mind as Yahoo struggles to right its ship in the … Read more

The masses have spoken.

And Wal-Mart Stores, the nation's largest retailing chain, retreated from a misdirected and unfair policy. Last month, the company informed customers who bought its DRM-wrapped music that it would no longer issue keys to unlock songs. That meant music buyers would no longer be able to move their libraries to new computers or players. On Thursday, the company reversed that decision and said it would continue to issue keys for "the present time," according to Ravi Jariwala, a Walmart.com spokesman.

OK, let's tally these up. By my count this makes the … Read more

As Yahoo stock reaches new lows, it appears a private equity fund that owns a small percentage of Yahoo's stock has proposed a new deal for selling the company to Microsoft.

Mithras Capital Partners, which reportedly owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent of Yahoo, suggested a new deal Thursday to sell the company to Microsoft for $22 a share, a 74 percent premium on Yahoo's current stock price, Reuters reported. A Mithras Capital partner plans to send a letter proposing the deal to Microsoft and Yahoo on Thursday night, Reuters said.

Under the … Read more

Wal-Mart's decision to stop supporting the DRM swaddling its music reminds me of this parable: A father and son are herding cows one day. While climbing a narrow mountain road, the herd comes to a place where the path is washed out. In a single file line, each of the cows follows the one ahead of it and plunges to its death.

"Whenever we're herding cows," the father tells the boy, "be sure to remind me that they're just like people."

For some reason, Wal-Mart has decided to stop issuing keys for its … Read more

It's a familiar pattern: another month, another increase in Google's search market share.

Internet users performed 11.7 billion searches in the U.S. in August, choosing Google 63 percent of the time, according to ComScore's monthly analysis released Thursday. That's an increase of 1.1 percentage points from 61.9 percent in July, the analyst firm said.

Yahoo slipped from 20.5 percent to 19.6 percent, and Microsoft slipped from 8.9 percent to 8.3 percent.