Quoted: An alliance of companies led by Google plans to roll out a common set of standards to allow developers to write programs for Google’s Orkut and other social networking Web sites.

Quoted: New tools are allowing people with minimal skills to do what only professional mapmakers were able to do before.

Quoted: Major Internet sites are showing a growing interest in the advertising business, and traditional ad firms are starting to worry.

Quoted: Several Republican candidates have also been targeted in a sophisticated “Google bombing” campaign intended to game the search engine’s ranking algorithms.

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Quoted: Do Internet users prefer predictable services like Yahoo, or are they more interested in Google’s wow factor?