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Yahoo executives say Yahoo began developing Hadoop in 2005 following the publication of a paper by Google Inc. about MapReduce, software Google created to help convert large amounts of data on the Web into a clean set of Web-search results.

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Such returns would exceed those of Google Inc.'s 2004 IPO, when the Web-search company's early venture investors Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which each put $12.5 million into the start-up, saw their investments swell to around $2 billion.

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Virginia Mayo/AP Photo Mr. Page said Google is also seeing traction in Google+, the company's social network that launched in June 2011 and which competes against Facebook Inc. Google has begun to blend Google+ with its Web-search results.

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Yahoo executives say Yahoo began developing Hadoop in 2005 following the publication of a paper by Google Inc. about MapReduce, software Google created to help convert large amounts of data on the Web into a clean set of Web-search results.

Yahoo to Spin Off Hadoop Team Amir Efrati 2011

Google is betting big on online display ads as it works to diversify its revenue streams and quash the notion that it can only make money from small text ads that appear next to results on its Web-search engine.

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Google Inc., long labeled as a one-trick pony that sells Web-search text ads and little else, is quickly learning another trick: selling online display ads.

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In 2008, federal antitrust lawyers in the U.S. thwarted a Web-search advertising partnership between the companies.

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But it added that if users are signed into their Google accounts, data about their Web-search history and the videos they watched on YouTube may now be used in combination with other services.

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The business, which has become Google's second-biggest revenue generator after the short text ads that pop up next to Web-search results.

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Partnerships between Google and device makers have made Android the No.1 operating system in smartphones in the U.S. and helped Google to extend its Web-search engine and other applications into devices beyond PCs.

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