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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Google loses share as Yahoo, Microsoft gain: report

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    Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:42pm EDT
    The logo of Google Inc. is seen outside their headquarters building in Mountain View, California, August 18, 2004. REUTERS/Clay McLachlan

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In a rare slip for Google Inc, Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp gained share as Google lost ground in the Web search market in June, industry data released on Friday shows.

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    Monthly data published by audience research firm comScore Inc shows Google's share of the U.S. Web search market -- the source of half the company's revenue -- at 61.5 percent, down three-tenths of a percentage point from May.

    Meanwhile, number-two-ranked Yahoo gained 0.3 of a percentage point to 20.9 percent in June while the market share of Microsoft, the number-three U.S. Web search player, jumped 0.7 points to 9.2 percent, comScore said.

    IAC/InterActiveCorp's Ask.com and Time Warner Inc's AOL unit, the number four and number five in U.S. search services, also lost ground, comScore data showed. Ask lost 0.2 percentage points of share to 4.3 percent and AOL's market share shrunk by 0.4 percentage points to 4.1 percent.

    The data can be seen at tinyurl.com/comScore-June/.

    (Reporting by Eric Auchard; Editing by Braden Reddall)
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