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SiliconValley.com - When it comes to blogging, big corporations are turning to twentysomething mavericks for advice. If they can't lick them, they may have to join them.

Google bypasses browser to search PC drives, Web (Reuters)

Reuters - Google Inc. unveils a computerand Web search tool on Monday using self-updating navigationand personal information software that puts it in more directcompetition with Yahoo, Microsoft and

Google Revamps Desktop Search Program (AP)

AP - Google Inc. updated its software for searching PC hard drives and the Internet, giving the free program a new look and adding tools that deliver personalized information based on a user's Web surfing habits.

Web of Crime: Enter the Professionals (PC World)
PC World - Online pranksters give way to organized gangs determined to mine your technology for illegal profit.

China tries to wipe Internet icon from Web (Reuters)

Reuters - Floozie or role model, attention mongeror free spirit? For months, China has been debating what tomake of its latest Internet-born star, a young woman knownnationwide as Furong Jiejie, aka Sister Furong.

Free computer search software released by US tech giant Google (AFP)

AFP - Free software that "learns" the habits and interests of computer users to customize online searches was released by Internet giant Google.

EarthLink acquires anti-spyware company Aluria (Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. Internet service providerEarthLink Inc. on Monday said it agreed to acquire the assetsof privately held Aluria Software LLC, which makes security andanti-spyware software.

Google offers customized Web pages in challenge to Yahoo, Microsoft (AFP)

AFP - Internet search giant Google took a step toward directly confronting rivals Yahoo and Microsoft with a new program giving users customized Web pages in a desktop window.