It takes a while before Google moves over chief office tower in the Seattle area.

The expansion plans by Google have been subject to much speculation within the Seattle brokerage community for about a year. The California Company reportedly needs somebody with whom the plans could be discussed to sign a nondisclosure agreement. But Google said that there’s “nothing to announce at this time.”

Microsoft is dealing up with Baidu.com to hand out the search engine’s paid-for-listings on Microsoft pages. Microsoft would display Baidu’s paid listings, which would appear with search results when key words are typed in by users on Microsoft Websites including MSN, Live and other partner Websites in China.

The company then expects revenue of 270 million to 280 million Yuan in the fourth quarter.

Google Inc. and Baidu.com Inc., its biggest rival in China, are now on their way to explore same options to expand their online video services in the world’s fourth-biggest economy. Both search engines already had discussed with some local video Web Sites for potential business cooperation or possible acquisitions. The Internet giant also has specific target to be achieved.

According to a recent article by The Observer, Google might soon come with its own mobile phone, may name it as G-Phone by early 2008 if discussions between the search giant and Orange prove to be fruitful. It is said that phone would be co-branded and will carry much more advanced services than current services.

Google had recently announced that it has added domain registration services to Google Apps for Your Domain; it is a platform, which allows organizations to provide tools like email and shared calendaring.

Google had partnered with eNom and GoDaddy.com, who are industry’s giant in domain registration, to make easy for users to find, register and buy domain and start using Google services.

Google offers domains for $10 per year that includes private registration to protect the customer’s personal information. It currently support .com, .org, .net, .biz, .info, and hope to support more domains over time.

Google Inc, has recently released the customized version of Microsoft Crop’s Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) in which Google, not Windows Live Search will be the default search engine. In addition it also provides users with Google Toolbar and a Google homepage which could be personalized. Microsoft IE 7 is only for Windows XP also included in Windows Vista; anyhow it will be available to customers only by Jan. 30.

ANN ARBOR – It about a week now that Google had decided to stay in its downtown office for at least four years, the home real estate firms anyways says commercial space near the search engine giant is in huge demand. The business is expected to be picked up in the neighborhood of Google’s new downtown AdWords office. The developer of residential projects expects about 300 to 400 employees to live in their buildings. There are 5,700 square feet still available in the McKinley Towne Centre, where Google would move in near March.

The $12 billion company has said the office would ultimately employ about 1,000 people. That makes Google the only biggest private office user to move to Ann Arbor’s central business district in years.

Google and NASA put some more effort to the partnership, which they exposed by ample display last year. They went for a press conference at NASA Ames Research Center, at Moffett Field, to further discuss the detail about their cooperation under the Space Act Agreement.

Google also bet a claim to build up to 1 million square feet of office space at the Ames facility, just to accommodate its future growing work force.

Procrastination Central from MSN® shopping at shopping.msn.com now offers last-minute shopping stores, which can deliver gifts on time of holidays for shoppers. Through this shoppers will have a peace of mind by knowing that their gift would arrive on time. Procrastination Central allows people do their holiday shopping with tools, which make it easy to browse, select, purchase and as well to deliver gifts for their loved ones at perfect price.

Shoppers have a chance to compare more than 30 million products from over 8,000 existing stores all at one place. This site features a new online coupons section as well that is updated everyday and offers amazing gift for Him, Her, Baby, Kids, Teens and Pets with ideas for Hot Gifts under $25, Romantic & Sexy Gifts, Stocking Stuffers, and Editors’ Picks. Further shoppers will find free, expert buying advice given by Consumer Reports and MSN’s own staff of editors to help shoppers find the great values.

The new version of Google Toolbar for Firefox now adds up the new features those were accessible only in IE toolbar and is a special bonus.

One can now bookmark sites without the help of third-party tools (anyhow some may have more advanced features) and one may even add custom buttons, which would let you search other sites and read their feeds as well.

This latest version of Google Toolbar really makes it easy to send snippets from web pages via email and SMS. The greatest news of all is through this you can now open files from the web using Docs & Spreadsheets. You could further drag and drop your files from Windows Explorer to Firefox or associate documents with Firefox. Here’s the list of available formats: .doc, .rtf, .odt, .xls, .ods, .csv, .sxw.