Chip Bayers' article: "Google's built a no-nonsense path to profitability by treating advertising just like search. The secret? Three words, ranked by relevance: Results. Results. Results."

One of America's newspapers barely gets a mention in Google. Here's an explanation and a suggested remedy.

"Google's catalog search combs the pages of more than 600 current catalogs -- 1, 500 including back issues -- to help both consumers and corporations find everything from apple butter to zipper doodles."

LookSmart has released a screensaver that harnesses the spare computing power of volunteers whose machines are indexing the Web.

Article examining the criticism of Looksmart's decision to change their business model and directory to pay-per-click advertising.

On Friday, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a suit against content-aggregation site MP3Board.com. [Wired News]

Something good is coming out of the MP3 craze after all - David Williams couldn't find an audio version of the Bible on the Internet that he could download, so he decided to record one himself in MP3. [Wired News]

Benefits of free music to the recording industry, and does streaming and downloading music on the Internet encourages CD sales? [Wired News]

Just days after punk band The Offspring began selling unauthorized Napster merchandise through its website, the two parties choose collaboration instead of litigation. [Wired News]

Napster's "New Artist Program", was recently redesigned to include a genre tree of music categories. Listen.com is now suing, because it thinks that the pages look too similar to information on its website. [Wired News]