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Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and other social networks help you stay connected with friends and family, but it's easy to overdo the connecting and end up distracted and unproductive. Worse, many social networks notify you every time someone tries to interact with you, making it even harder to concentrate on productive tasks. Turning these helpful reminders off can be tricky in some instances, but setting up a way to tune out mobile and e-mail notifications is well worthwhile. Here's how to stop your social networks from distracting you, so you can get your working life back on track. And don't worry--you can still peek at your Twitter page once in a while.

Google may never have given more than lip service to the slogan "Don't be Evil," but it struck everyone else as pretty significant. Now that it appears to prefer effective exploitation of customers and bullying of partners, it's clear if Google ever was Good, it certainly isn't now.

Google+ hasn't exactly taken the world by storm. However, with features such as free videoconferencing and the capability to share and promote content with customers and colleagues at a touch of a (+1) button, Google+ is making a concerted effort to court businesses. We look at nine ways it can help you succeed in business.

Search Plus Your World brings your G+ friends' to the top of the Google hits parade -- often with embarrassing results.

President Barack Obama faced perhaps his toughest and most direct question ever on the H-1B program by a Texas woman during an online town hall Monday.

What Google is doing with your information, and why it’s really doing so, are up for debate, and Android is at the core of that debate.

Google's controversial search update brings content from Google+ to the forefront of your search results. Here's what you need to know.

Paul Allen (the Google one, not the Microsoft one) predicts Google+ will have 400 million users by this time next year. Clever, crazy, or misreading the data?

Apple's wildly successful smartphone tops Yahoo's list of most popular search terms for 2011.

Plus: Google sneaks Google+ onto Ice Cream Sandwich

After several months of anticipation, Google finally announced Google+ Pages for local businesses, groups, sports, brands, organizations and more. Just a few weeks ago Google granted its Apps customers access to the social network, slowly growing its user base.