MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Reuters) – Google Inc injected ethnic networking features into its favourite Web telecommunicate creation as the world's No. 1 see engine seeks to fend soured rivalry from Facebook and Twitter.

Google introduced a newborn creation dubbed Google Buzz on weekday that allows users to apace deal messages, Web course and photos with friends and colleagues direct within Gmail, the company's favourite telecommunicate product.

And the consort undraped a containerful of newborn products fashioned to attain the newborn ethnic networking features suited to ambulatory devices, same smartphones supported on Google's Android operative system.

Google's newborn ethnic networking profession mimics whatever of the key features of favourite ethnic networking services same Twitter and Facebook, which are progressively hard Google for scheme surfers' online time.

Gmail is the ordinal most favourite Web supported telecommunicate in the world, with 176.5 meg unequalled visitors in December, according to comScore. Microsoft Corp's Windows Live Hotmail and character Inc's Mail were No. 1 and No. 2, with 369.2 meg unequalled visitors and 303.7 meg unequalled visitors respectively.

In constituent to the Buzz features for Gmail, Google said it is actuation a primary ambulatory covering for Buzz, as substantially as weaving Buzz profession into the ambulatory versions of its flagship Web place and its maps products.

Google has proven to mate the ethnic networking gesture before, actuation the Orkut ethnic meshwork in 2004. But patch Orkut is bounteous in destined foreign markets, same Brazil, it has unsuccessful to draw as some users as ethnic giants same Facebook and MySpace in the United States.

In antiquity a ethnic meshwork on crowning of an telecommunicate product, Google is mass in the footsteps of Yahoo, which has condemned a kindred move in efforts to ready up with Facebook.

(Additional news by Ian Sherr, redaction by Gerald E. McCormick)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Democratic senator said on weekday he has asked 30 U.S. companies, including Apple, Facebook and Skype, for aggregation on their manlike rights practices in China in the consequence of Google's selection to no individual work with Asiatic cyberspace counterintelligence efforts.

"Google sets a brawny warning in stagnant up to the Asiatic government's continuing unfortunate to attitude the basic manlike rights of liberated countenance and privacy," Assistant senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin said in a statement. "I countenance nervy to acquisition more most whether another dweller companies are selection to study Google's lead."

Google, the world's crowning cyberspace see engine, said terminal period it would not stay by Beijing-mandated counterintelligence of its Chinese-language see engine and strength depart the Asiatic mart all because of cyber attacks from China.

Durbin, who chairs the senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, said his commission module stop a chance in March to discourse Google and another U.S. companies on their playing practices in countries that limit cyberspace freedom.

The commission also module center evidence from high-ranking U.S. polity officials on what President Barack Obama's brass is doing to encourage cyberspace freedom, he said.

Meanwhile, Democratic body of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China said they would stop a chance on Feb 10 to investigate the effect of China's cyberspace policies on humans and utilization of the advertizement conception of accumulation in China.

That watchdog commission was created by U.S. governing approbatory China's entry into the WTO in 2001.

Durbin's honor asks apiece concern for info of its playing in China and what, if any, measures it module compel to secure that its products and services do not assist manlike rights abuses by the Asiatic government.

Durbin also urged the companies to tie a intentional cipher of carry famous as the Global Network Initiative, which regulates the actions of profession firms operative in countries that limit the cyberspace and already is hardback by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!

The grownup senate Democrat dispatched digit of quaternary slightly assorted letters to mass 30 companies:

ACER, Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Cisco, Dell, eBay, Facebook, Fortinet, Hewlett-Packard, IAC, IBM, Juniper, Lenovo, McAfee, Motorola, News Corp, Nokia, Nokia Siemens, Oracle, Research In Motion, SAP, Siemens, Skype, Sprint Nextel, Toshiba, Twitter, Verizon, Vodafone and Websense.

(Reporting by Doug linksman and Evangelist Poirier; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Bill Trott)

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – character got pulled into a ontogeny bed between China and Google on Saturday, as its Asiatic relation slammed Yahoo's statements activity Google patch a maker revealed the see colossus had stayed unhearable most cyber-attacks.

character knew it had been a direct of worldly Asiatic cyber attacks on U.S. firms before Google alerted the consort to them, but remained unhearable patch its large competition went public, a maker old with the status told Reuters.

Yahoo's Asiatic partner, e-commerce concern Alibaba Group, in which it owns a 40 proportionality stake, nonetheless titled "reckless" Yahoo's interpret terminal hebdomad that it stood allied with Google's positions.

Meanwhile, a Google spokeswoman on Sat denied Asiatic online reports that it has already definite to closed downbound its google.cn site.

"Alibaba Group has communicated to Yahoo! that Yahoo's grounds that it is 'aligned' with the function Google took terminal hebdomad was careless presented the demand of facts in evidence," the concern said in a grounds on Saturday.

character said weekday it stood allied with Google's function that attacks on consort networks are deeply disturbing and that ravishment of cyberspace individual concealment is something that staleness be opposed.

That was a period after Google declared it strength opening the China mart after pain a worldly cyber-attack on its meshwork that resulted in the thieving of its highbrowed property.

Google said it was no individual selection to separate noesis on its Asiatic module google.cn see engine, and would essay to discuss a jural unfiltered see engine, or opening the market.

Its spokeswoman said on Sat that Asiatic reports that Google has already condemned a selection were untrue, and denied that employees hit been place on paying leave.

"It's playing as usual," she said.

She said she was "unaware" whether China body hit been denied admittance to codes, as whatever bloggers hit said, but additional that Google is ease scanning its systems mass the attack.

TESTY PARTNERSHIP

Alibaba, which runs Taobao, China's maximal online retailer, as substantially as China's maximal e-commerce website Alibaba.com, has had a testy relation with character ever since the feat of Yahoo's past honcho chief Jerry Yang.

character bifold its see playing and endowed $1 1000000000 in Alibaba Group in 2005 in mercantilism for a 40 proportionality stake. The U.S. see colossus oversubscribed its wager in Alibaba.com New terminal year, astonishing Alibaba executives nearby their 10th-year anniversary.

It is believed that Alibaba wants character to delude its wager in the wider group, but character has said it views the today multi-billion note wager in Alibaba as a key assets in China.

In China, companies move carefully on topics huffy to the Asiatic government. Firms same Baidu Inc, NetEase.com and Sina run to self-censor without such prodding from the government.

(Additional news by Doug Young; Writing by Lucy Hornby; redaction by Apostle Graham)