Growth of Google

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■ Launched in 2002, Google News aggregates breaking stories from media sources around the world.

■ Google Maps and Google Earth, launched in 2005, offer an interactive map of the planet.

■ Google's acquisition in 2006 of YouTube changed the media landscape.

■ Google's 2008 acquisition of online advertising company DoubleClick gave rise to objections that the sale would give the company a near-monopoly of the online ad market and widen its scope to collect users' personal data.

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