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www.penn-olson.com — Finally it’s official. Both Baidu and Microsoft China have confirmed it: Baidu’s partnership with Microsoft’s Bing for English-language searches on Baidu.com is a done deal – after several months of rumors.

www.sfgate.com — As China ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the U.S. Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing one reason top Chinese leaders had become so obsessed with the Internet search company: They were googling themselves.

news.cnet.com — Chinese Internet users have one less Web search option this week, but otherwise it's business as usual as the People's Republic of China uses technology and intimidation to keep citizens away from objectionable content.

yro.slashdot.org — "Mr. Ballmer has recently posted on the official Microsoft blog discussing future business in China and defending Microsoft's stance of cooperating with the government even as other large IT companies have begun making public condemnations (Google and Twitter being the most prominent).

brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com — The Chinese company dominates online searches in its home market, but Google's ambitions go well beyond Googling.