

Music sales dip, and Net seen as culprit. Global music sales are down for the second straight year and the recording industry blames file swapping and CD burners. But analysts think it is more complex than that. [CNET News.com]
It's dissapointing that they touch on it "being more complex" but don't even mention the possibilities that CD prices and lack of good new music have anything to do with the "dip" in sales...
Google protects its search results. The company clamps down on computer-generated search requests that can help unscrupulous marketers manipulate its search rankings, but in doing so it denies access to number of Web surfers. [CNET News.com]