Google and China may not be fighting over science, but their feud could have unintended negative consequences for researchers in the country.

A Nature News survey of Chinese scientists found that 84 percent of them thought losing access to Google would “somewhat or significantly” hurt their work process. Like their American counterparts, Chinese researchers use Google and Google Scholar to find papers and related information.

“Research without Google would be like life without electricity,” one Chinese scientist told Nature.

In January, Google announced it would stop following censorship rules required by the Chinese government after its servers came under attack. It remains to be seen whether the Mountain View company will be thrown out of the country for that stance.

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” Google has announced that it has added a new content source to its real-time search feature: Facebook Pages.”

Give Up Internet’s Note

To support Facebook means to be against Yahoo-Bing secretly. Or you think twitter is better.

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After two decades online, I’m perplexed. It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I’ve met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.

Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works. Rest and The Source

“It’s time to warm up your credit cards folks.  Despite the fact that you won’t have it in your hands before March 29th (or 60 days after the announcement, according to Steve Jobs), you should be able to put in your iPad order as soon as next week.”  [s]

Give Up Internet’s Note: I hope you won’t buy it. Seriously.

Bonus: Have you seen our ipad humor section?

Who Created Chat Roulette? | Andrey Ternovskiy [PIC]

“I created this project for fun. Initially, I had no business goals with it. I created this project recently. I was and still am a teenager myself, that is why I had a certain feeling of what other teenagers would want to see on the Internet. I myself enjoyed talking to friends with Skype using a microphone and webcam. But we got tired of talking to each other eventually. So I decided to create a little site for me and my friends where we could connect randomly with other people.”

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Google has just rolled out “Google Shopper,” a new mobile application for Android devices that offers a variety of different ways to search for products.

Useless Give Up Internet’s Note:  Microsoft competes with Google, Apple and everyone indeed. Xbox is an awesome answer to Sony, Bing is a good answer to Google Search, Zune is a nice answer to Apple,  Project natal is a good answer to Wii. Microsoft answers good. But the future looks like “mobile”. What does Microsoft do for mobile? Lol. Nothing.

What’s Google Gears: A Firefox and Internet Explorer extension that allows to navigate on compatible websites offline and synchronize when going back online.

What did Google do:  Didn’t improve it.
Who Won: HTML5
Who Lost:Anyone.
Why?: Because Google never loses. haha.

The Google Buzz team made changes today that prevent popular postings from overwhelming your inbox.

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Umm… Google Buzz… I’m still confused if it’s a good idea or bad idea. But i’m absolutely sure that’s, it’s under the Google average.

Also Facebook tweeted the issue;

Facebook Problems Today | Photo Uploads Broken and Other Issues [NEWS]

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Someone completely removed Facebook from internet. Thank God that i really don’t care.