engine posted this over on WebmasterWorld a short while ago and I didn't see it posted here yet so I wanted to share it.

via SE Roundtable it emerges that Danny has finally been convinced in the oomph of the dark arts.

The Smoking Gun is running an article now saying that terrorists are using Google Earth to plot terror attacks. Full Story

API program for Panama is now live.

I was poking around on the CNN site, and found that it was powered by Wordpress - http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Some loud.. very loud rumors that Google is looking at feedburner for about 100 million.

update: purchase announcement

SnapNames, the leading domain auction, was bought today by Oversee.net. Fabulous is using registrars as a sales channel. Not that .info is one of the better extensions, but good ones no longer drop.

From The Local

The proposal, which would allow the National Defence Radio Establishment (Försvarets Radioanstalt - FRA) to monitor e-mail and telephone traffic coming in and out of the country, has met with fierce criticism from several quarters within Sweden. But Google had remained relatively silent on the issue, until now.

"We simply cannot compromise our users' integrity by allowing Swedish authorities access to data that may not even concern Swedish activity," said Fleischer.

When we last left them they were Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the SS RegisterFly.

Neven Vision acquisition leads to face detection technology at Google Image Search. Literally Google can now tell if the image was a picture of Paris Hilton or if it's just a picture of Paris, France.

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - An independent European Union panel has launched an investigation into whether Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Internet search engine abides by European privacy rules.

Google bought feedburner according to TechCrunch.

Quote: From next month, Google will no longer take adverts from companies which sell essays and dissertations - and the internet company has written to advertisers to tell them about the policy.

You remember when Microsoft found themselves in deep trouble over removing Java Virtual Machine and forcing people down the IE route?

No one knows what a pain reading those patent apps and white papers can be better than me.

Looks like my man was peeking under yahoo's skirt and found something that is going to be VERY difficult for them to explain...

Adware maker Zango is fed up with having their "software" removed from people's computers by PC Tools (see Story) without notification.

Jenstar has a great thread on her site about how Google is disabling arbritrage accounts as of June 1.

ValleyWag says they have confirmed Sam Sethi's post that Google is buying FeedBurner and that the price is in the $100 Mil