Baidu Seals Deal With Rock Music Group

There are a number of reasons that Baidu has beaten Google (in terms of Chinese market share), but one of them involves entertainment-related queries; the Chinese company’s MP3 search function is wildly popular.  And that function will soon get better, as Baidu has announced a partnership with Rock Music Group.

Google Book Search Gets Text Layer

Google Book Search has, up until now, provided images of text; these were fine for reading, but not so great for anything else.  So the service is taking a step forward and offering true “text layers” of many of its out-of-copyright books.

Google’s DoubleClick Buy Draws EU Criticism

The latest concerns come from the European Consumers' Organization (BEUC), which found plenty of reason to worry about DoubleClick and Google merging their consumer databases and mining them.