The FBI is investigating an alleged Internet scam that has raised $11 million from 1,600 investors nationwide during the past 17 months.

Seventeen-year-old Patrick Ly was so smitten with a certain classmate that he would visit an Internet blogging site to read his crush's musings. Then Patrick began to keep an online journal himself.

Google changed its Gmail membership policy this week to prevent people from profiting on the sale of popular e-mail names.

Using Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser to surf the Internet has become a marked risk - even with the latest security patches installed.

PCWorld.com, July 1, 2004 Use Google to search for "Ionic Breeze," and you'll likely find that nine of the first ten listings point to sites that sell The Sharper Image's popular air purifier. In early June, the only link that wasn't for an e-commerce site was the last one, which pointed to an Epinions.com review.

The major television networks are reducing the amount of airtime they devote to this summer's political conventions. It appears that Internet coverage is down significantly as well. To date, no Webcasters have announced plans to cover either the Democratic convention, in Boston July 26 to 29, or the Republican Convention in New York August 30 to September 2.

Shares of Web search providers Yahoo Inc. and Ask Jeeves Inc. fell on Thursday as investors reacted to news that Microsoft Corp. was testing its own search engine in a move that signals competition from the world's biggest software maker.

Microsoft Corp. has a history of arriving late to markets but crippling rivals nonetheless. Today, in its latest come-from-behind effort, the software giant plans to unveil the first tangible elements of its secretive push to be No. 1 in the increasingly lucrative business of searching the Internet. The software maker is replacing the search page on its MSN Web site with a cleaner and simpler design that resembles that of market leader Google Inc. For now, Microsoft will continue to rely on Yahoo Inc. technology for its search results and related text ads.

Sir Mix Alot's salacious 1992 hit "Baby Got Back" blasted from the house stereo system at 7 Bamboo, a karaoke bar here, on a Friday night. Two bar regulars momentarily turned rap stars, billed as Toqer and Woody, gyrated on the corner stage and praised big behinds as the audience joined in with off-key wails.

A Silicon Valley start-up has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming an engineer employed at the search giant stole software code to create the popular online social networking service Orkut.com.