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Grading Google’s CEO Larry Page: A First Year Report Card

Since then, Page has streamlined the company's management ranks, jettisoned several non-essential product lines, and worked to increase the company's competitive metabolism in an effort to inject the company with "the passion and soul of a startup." But Page's first year has been pockmarked by privacy stumbles continuing challenges confronting Facebook in the increasingly crucial social networking space. Here's a first year assessment of Page's performance one-year in.

Google, Facebook, Twitter in Social Spat as Antitrust Probe Looms

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Google’s growing struggle with Facebook and Twitter for advantage in the social networking space erupted into public view Tuesday after the search giant’s competitors unveiled a new tool to undermine its latest product, Google “Search plus Your World.”