The latest trick of bulk e-mail marketers is to hit the referral logs of popular weblogs, and the bloggers are hopping mad. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]

Bill Thompson argues that the removal of certain sites from Google's database is unacceptable. [BBC News | TECHNOLOGY]

Says Traders Gave Out False Data on Energy Prices. TULSA, Okla., Oct. 25 (Bloomberg News) — The Williams Companies, the owner of natural gas pipelines, said today that its traders provided phony information to a journal that compiles gas price indexes used by the industry in sales contracts. [New York Times: Business]