Google to open R&D center in Israel

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Image: Internet search giant Googles logo. Google says it processes more than 200 million searches a day and leads the world for search engine usage with 57 percent of the current market followed by Yahoo at 21 percent and MSN at just 9 percent.
Image: Internet search giant Google's logo. Google says it processes more than 200 million searches a day and leads the world for search engine usage with 57 percent of the current market, followed by Yahoo at 21 percent and MSN at just 9 percent.

Internet search giant Google will open a research-and-development center in the northern Israeli city of Haifa -- its first R&D center in the Middle East, the company announced in a statement Tuesday.


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