InternetWikipedia founder aims to break Google stranglehold (AFP)

AFP - Watch out Google -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes that Wikia Search, a project he spearheads, will break Google's domination as the world's most widely used Internet search engine.

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Watch out Google -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes that Wikia Search, a project he spearheads, will break Google's domination as the world's most widely used Internet search engine. Google and fellow titans Yahoo and Microsoft dominate the Internet search engine market which Wales said was already causing some worry among web users. "Right now in the US in particular we have a really strong concentration of the industry," Wales said Thursday at the Global Brand Forum in Singapore. Industry statistics showed over 90 percent of Internet searches in the United States are done through the three firms, he said. "So a lot of people... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

InternetItaly blocks Swedish file-sharing site (AP)

AP - An Italian judge has ordered the country's Internet service providers to block access to The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing Web site, as part of a probe into copyright law violation, officials said Thursday.

InternetNew York Web site gives juicy details on city's notables (Reuters)

Reuters - Which failed presidential hopeful from New York once married his second cousin and who married the same person twice? Which New Yorker gave his girlfriend a $1 million Rolls Royce birthday gift? And which top literary agent drove a cab?