It’s funny, even when Google denies a rumor, it still makes the news.

Bill Gates says that governments trying to censor information on the Internet are wasting their time.

The World Association of Newspapers is lobbying against Google News, a non revenue-producing search engine that sends tons of traffic their way.

Yahoo News is gearing up to implement trackbacks.

Boing Boing, Battelle, Philipp and I’m sure many others are asking that Microsoft and any others who gave up search data to the U.S. Department of Justice release it publicly, if it is so harmless.

The newest release of Microsoft’s web browser provides several new features that current users of IE should welcome.

A few hours after denying it had any intention to acquire the Napster digital music service, Google’s PR legions were called upon again, this time to disavow the Goobuntu talk.

After-hours trading in shares of the search advertising company declined slightly from the previous close, down $1.02 to $425.80.

Forget waiting for your favorite website to create a Google Toolbar button, Matt Cutts shows you how to make your own.

Google’s financial report seems to have disappointed Wall Street.

Charlene Li: My definition of a blogging solution is a software or service that enables the online publication and management of a blog. At a minimum, the solution should allow the user to set up a Web page, write posts, and manage them. Blog support services like FeedBurner or aggregators like NewsGator don’t fall into this category.

May as well put a hockey mask on the face of the Google operating system stories that keep cropping up; another version of the story that will not die contends an internally developed version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution from Google is in the works.

IDG News reports that Microsoft has revamped its blogging policy after many employees expressed outrage over the company’s abrupt censoring of a Chinese blogger.

On-demand entertainment like gaming, videos, and music should see consumers spend more and more on them over the next five years, reaching $9 billion by 2010.

According to Nathan Weinberg, Dateline NBC is courting certain tech bloggers to link to a special live blog they are hosting in conjunction with their series on sexual predators.

Lots of people have been downloading the chatter about Google possibly buying the Napster music service, but Google said it’s not happening.

The Internet Explorer team released a new version which includes our new RSS platform.

Open source marketing is a great notion, but it’s slow to catch on.

A report on Mobile Search branding has released some interesting findings.

Goodmail Systems announced that AOL and Yahoo are going to implement their pay-to-play email authentication system. With the Goodmail service AOL, Yahoo and eventually numerous ISP’s would charge permission based newsletter publishers a fraction of a cent per email in …

Aaron posts a great rundown on Google Toolbar 4 for Internet Explorer and what it means for search engine optimization.

Over on the Google Adsense blog they are providing invaluable tips on how to optimize your Adsense ads to make more money.

BoingBoing points to The ThoughtSafe, a USB stick that is encrypted and contains a custom version of MSN Messenger.

Corporate users of Microsoft’s productivity suites Office XP and Office 2003 will have to upgrade their software, in the wake of Microsoft’s court loss in a patent suit.