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• Google trends Flu activity in ANZ

  With all the news about the 2009 Swine Flu outbreak, search giant Google has included Australia and New Zealand in its Flu Trends service, which estimates the number of cases through Internet searches on the topic.

• Microsoft fixes Bing bug

  Microsoft today said it had fixed a bug in Bing that had infuriated Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) users when they discovered that the company's new search engine had hijacked their browsers.

• Microsoft to leave smartbooks to Google

  Microsoft doesn't plan to offer a version of Windows for so-called "smartbooks," leaving the space open to Linux, Google's Android and other operating systems.

• iGoogle gets a new look

  Google has launched new Australian tools for iGoogle, Google’s personalised homepage, giving users the opportunity to stay abreast of petrol prices and the latest sport results.

• Google hopes upgraded search appliance woos the enterprise

  Google Inc. today released an updated Google Search Appliance that aims to provide corporate users with a better way to search their company's internal data coffers.

• Google Search Appliance now can index billions of documents

  A revamped software architecture for the Google Search Appliance (GSA) and a new high-end model of this enterprise search device lift its indexing capacity to billions of documents and make it easier to scale it up.

• Google: Page’s Law

  You’ve heard of Moore’s Law, which basically says that computer power doubles every 18 months with respect to a given price point.

• Google may take music downloads beyond China

  Google is considering taking the free music download search it offers in China to other countries as well, though it has no specific plans yet, the company said Monday.

• Google keeps quiet on Android laptop plans

  While two laptops based on Google's Android operating system made an appearance ahead of the annual Computex exhibition in Taipei, a senior executive at the search engine company declined to discuss what steps the company is taking to adapt the smartphone OS for laptops.

• Racism, hate, militancy sites proliferating via social networking

  Rascism, hate, and militancy sites have tripled in number over the past year on the Web and within corners of social-networking sites like Facebook, YouTube, Google and Yahoo, according to one vendor tracking them.

• Microsoft reveals Bing search engine

  Some wags have already started saying that it stands for “but it’s not Google,” a statement that reveals just what a job Microsoft’s new Bing search engine has in front of it.

• Aussie devs make Wave with Google Web Toolkit

  Google's latest offering, the Web-based real-time collaboration suite dubbed Wave, began life in Sydney, Australia, as a start-up project built with Google's open source Web Toolkit project.

• Google's Wave consolidates core online features in one tool

  Google released to developers an early version of a collaboration and communication tool that consolidates features from e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, wikis, multimedia management and document sharing.

• Google tests scripting feature for online apps

  Google will add scripting capabilities to Google Docs, allowing organizations to customize its online applications and automate tasks, the company said Wednesday.

• Microsoft picks Bing as name for new search engine

  Microsoft has picked Bing as the branding for its new search engine, putting to rest months of speculation of what the next iteration of Live Search would be called.