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Through relentless work on relational analysis, and an investment in a spot at the DEMO conference, Silobreaker CEO Kristoffer Mansson may be the next big newsbreaker on the Internet.

The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law (NCICL) has called the $165 million in tax incentives for Google "unusual" and challenged the deal in court.

2006 was a good year for Google, but 2007 didn't start off too well. The primary search engine apparently forgot how to do math, as both its calculator and currency conversion functions stopped working. The proverbial hangover has passed, however, and things are back to normal now.

Site publishers can use the Google Custom Search Engine to build the search engine of their dreams, drawing from specific sites and blogs, dressing it up to match the look and feel of the webmaster's site, and making money with AdSense through its search results.

Widgetbox, an online directory for syndicated web "widgets," or small interactive services that can be embedded onto a webpage or blog, formally announced its launch on Monday, after completing a private and public beta.

The World Wide Web Consortium released a new edition of Core XML Standards late last week.

A service outage of several hours represented some growing pains for the YouTube video sharing service, which has become so popular that it is now part of the comScore Media Metrix Top 50.

No one wants to have to say, "My Internet broke." When this phrase is uttered, the source of the problem (assuming it's not the user) becomes the object of much ill will and quite a few uncouth words. Now Google, the former "do no evil" company, is hinting that uninstalling one of its products may "break" your Internet.