Takes Local Search Service out of Beta (Internet advertising) (NewsFactor)NewsFactor - Google

Takes Local Search Service out of Beta (Internet advertising) (NewsFactor)NewsFactor - Google

Google Takes Local Search Service out of Beta (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) has brought its local search service out of beta, giving users the ability to search for specific locations within towns and find information on local attractions, restaurants and hotels.

Google Keeps Eye on Web, Exec Says (PC World)
PC World - High-flying tech firm focuses on customers, not competitors, as strategy.

Yahoo accused of raiding workers (SiliconValley.com)
SiliconValley.com - Nuance Communications, a Menlo Park maker of speech-recognition software, has sued Yahoo for unfair competition and theft of trade secrets, accusing the Internet giant of ``raiding''all but one of Nuance's research and development engineers.

Connection restored between feuding Net providers (Reuters)
Reuters - Traffic resumed between two feudingInternet access providers on Friday, mending a rift that hadblocked off portions of the Internet for thousands of usersover the past two days.

Cogent, Level 3 Fight Severs Customers from Net (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - A dispute between two major Internet backbones is affecting customers throughout the country, angering many as they struggle with severed network connections.

VeriSign Tackles the Scandal of Splog (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - News Analysis: VeriSign's buy of the Weblogs.com ping server aims to fix the sagging springs of the blogosphere, which is getting crushed beneath blog spam.

EU presses for cross-border online music licenses (Reuters)
Reuters - A key European Union official wants tosimplify the way music is licensed to online services such asApple's iTunes, warning that Europe will fall behind unlesscross-border licenses are created.