News from eWeek.com - Google Rolls Out Desktop 2.0 Beta

"SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. unveils a computer and Web search tool on Monday using self-updating navigation and personal information software that puts it in more direct competition with Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL."

FT.com / Media & internet / Google - Google expects second issue to raise $4bn

"ImageGoogle on Thursday announced a secondary share issue that would raise an estimated $4bn, which analysts said could be used to fund a sizeable acquisition or significant capital investments"

Wired News: Google's Boycott Misses the Mark

"Google is all for googling, as long as you don't google a Google executive.

That's the lesson that Jai Singh, CNET News.com founder and top editor, learned the hard way when the company informed him that no one from Google would speak to anyone at News.com for a full year."

IBM Open-Sources New Search Technology

"IBM plans to release as open-source a sophisticated new search and text analysis technology that is able to find relationships, trends and facts buried in a wide range of unstructured data, including e-mails, Web pages, text documents, images, audio and video."