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Google is diving deeper into personalized search results, debuting a feature called "Google Plus Your World". But the debut of the service, which pulls results from your own content plus social circles from Google-owned services may catch the ire of regulators.

The private lives of young people are now so well documented on the internet that many will have to change their names on reaching adulthood, Google’s CEO has claimed.

Google on Monday ended censorship of its Mandarin Chinese search engine, drawing an immediate and angry reaction from Chinese officials. The US internet company sought to smooth the situation by redirecting all search requests on its simplified Chinese service to its Hong Kong servers, which it beleived was beyond the reach of Chinese censors.

It is “99.9 per cent”certain that Google will close its local search service in China, as negotiations over internet censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached a gridlock, according to a knowledgeable source.

Internet giant Google Inc has made a shock threat to quit China, the world's biggest Internet market by users, after hackers accessed human rights activists' e-mail accounts.