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Clarence Briggs is mad. A U.S. Army veteran and chief executive of a Web services company, Briggs uses stark language to describe his experiences with those who launch click fraud schemes on search engines. "These people bleed you but they don't want to kill you because if they kill you, they can't continue to bleed you, can they?" he said. "I'm telling you, something isn't right." Click fraud is a way to scam revenue from companies that place ads with search engine such as Google. (GOOG) A December survey of 553 online advertisers and marketing firms by the Search Engine...

SAN FRANCISCO — Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in China, adhering to the country's free-speech restrictions in return for better access in the Internet's fastest growing market.

WASHINGTON -- Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday recalled 3.8 million pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles for a cruise control switch suspected of causing engine fires. It is the fifth largest auto industry recall in U.S. history. Ford said the recall of 1994-2002 model-year vehicles includes the company's hot-selling F-150 pickup truck, Ford Expedition, Lincoln Navigator and Ford Broncos. The company said it would start sending out recall notices to vehicle owners immediately.

Howdy all! I am working on an article about search giant Google, and was wondering if I might get your comments? Specifically, I am looking for personal experience stories, good or bad, as well as cool information & uses for Google. Focus points of the article include cool searches, pro's & cons and how to's. Do you love Google? Tell me why! Hate it? I would love to hear your stories as well!

New London, WI – August 17th, 2005 – Jonbon Technologies will launch The Grand Old Portal (http://www.GrandOldPortal.com) on August 29th, 2005. The Grand Old Portal is a human-edited search engine of Republican websites on the World Wide Web. This search engine is different from other search engines as it only lists sites that support the Republican Party. Each site that is submitted is reviewed by an editor who then determines if the site will be listed in the search engine. Webmasters who run websites that support the Republican Party are invited to visit http://www.GrandOldPortal.com and submit their website for inclusion...

Since this is a VANITY thread open to all questions. I need some help getting a rebuilt engine for my sail boat. Need a 25 HP engine for a 36' Catalina. Hopefully in the Southern California area. Anyone help? Thanks.

A MELBOURNE invention that claims to slash vehicle petrol bills by up to 20 per cent and reduce harmful engine emissions will go on sale tomorrow. The Vaporate Fuel Saving System is the brainchild of Shaun Rigney, 44, of Doncaster. Vaporate, which will retail for a recommended $289 and must be fitted by a mechanic, will be distributed by Repco. Mr Rigney said it worked by enabling vehicles to use petrol that normally was spewed into the environment. He said most cars wasted between 15 per cent and 20 per cent of petrol because they failed to turn it into...

DENVER -- The engine of a jetliner caught fire Friday evening as pilots revved up the aircraft for takeoff, forcing the crew to abort the flight and evacuate 131 passengers using an emergency inflatable slide. The fire happened after the United Airlines jet had left the terminal at Denver International Airport bound for New York. The crew of another plane reported flames spewing out of engine during takeoff, United spokeswoman Jenna Obluck said. Pilots used an onboard fire-extinguishing system to put out the blaze. Several passengers suffered minor injuries such as sprained ankles as they went down the slide, airport...

SACRAMENTO — In his campaign to bypass the Legislature and place his package of fiscal and political reforms on the ballot, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is relying heavily on an independent committee led by six of California's most influential and prominent business advocates. Their group, Citizens to Save California, is, so far, the primary political committee funding Schwarzenegger's statewide push for the 600,000 signatures he needs — per initiative — to place his proposed constitutional amendments on a November special-election ballot. From authoring voter-initiatives to holding campaign events, the group has become the engine behind the Republican governor's reform drive. "We're...

Mercury Marine to open plant in China Company says move won't necessarily mean job cuts in Fond du Lac By RICK BARRETT rbarrett@journalsentinel.com Posted: Feb. 17, 2005 Miami - Mercury Marine Inc. is opening a new factory in China in about two weeks, the Fond du Lac outboard engine company said Thursday. The $30 million plant will produce four-stroke engines that are commonly used on recreational boats and small commercial boats. "We are making a lot of these engines in Fond du Lac at the moment," company President Patrick Mackey said in an interview at the Miami International Boat...

Entrepreneur develops more efficient engine By Ed Taylor, Tribune Brian Hageman has devoted a good part of his life to building nuclear power plants. Now he is ready to commercialize a new type of engine that could drastically reduce the need for electricity — and save money in the process. Hageman is president and chief executive of Deluge, a Phoenix-based company that is preparing to bring its thermal hydraulic engine to the marketplace. Ten manufactured prototypes of the engine, which convert heat energy to mechanical energy without combustion, will be used to drive pumps at an old oil field on...

The other project cut was the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter. JIMO - recently renamed Prometheus 1 - had been intended as the first mission under Project Prometheus, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe's pet project to encourage the use of nuclear-power propulsion to explore the outer solar system. Washington (UPI) Feb 08, 2005 Despite fears by many in the scientific community that President George W. Bush's initiative to re-invigorate the American manned space program would cause deep cuts in NASA's science budget, the administration's proposed 2006 budget - announced with great fanfare on Monday - left almost all of the agency's present...

Microsoft's highly anticipated search engine debuted today, with the software giant officially entering the fray in a market that gets more competitive by the day. Offered through the company's MSN Internet portal, the service is available in 25 markets and 10 languages, and promises to deliver more-relevant results, instant answers to specific questions, and a collection of tools that give Web surfers more control in targeting and refining searches. Building on Vast Resources In revving up the engine after years of testing, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) also has unveiled a redesigned MSN home page with search tools placed in...

The invention of a gas-fueled generator the size of a quarter heralds a future of ever-smaller machines The lightbulb went on when Alan Epstein, a meticulous 53-year-old engineer with a twinkling sense of humor, was sitting in a jury pool in a Cambridge, Massachusetts, courthouse. The question he was pondering that spring day in 1994 had been put to him by a United States Air Force official: How difficult would it be to build a jet engine the size of, say, a coffee cup? Epstein, the head of MIT’s Gas Turbine Laboratory, which has a staff of 80 and receives...

90-Day Mars Trip Said Possible By Irene Mona Klotz, Discovery News Oct. 20, 2004 — A team of University of Washington researchers believes it has found a way to cut roundtrip travel time between Earth and Mars by 95 percent, giving astronauts a much higher chance of pulling off a successful mission while minimizing their exposure to dangerous radiation. "If it's going to take 2 1/2 years (to travel back and forth to Mars), the chances of a successful mission are pretty low," said project head Robert Winglee, a professor of Earth and space sciences at the Seattle-based university. Taking...

David Koresh's Car To Go On Auction Block Words 'David's 427 Go God' Stamped On Engine POSTED: 3:51 pm EDT September 23, 2004 FREDRICKSBURG, Texas -- A 1968 Chevrolet Camaro once owned by former Branch Davidian leader David Koresh is expected to fetch up to $60,000 at auction this weekend. The black two-door Camaro was parked at the Davidian compound during a 51-day siege by federal agents in 1993 that ended with Koresh and nearly 80 followers dying as the complex near Waco burned to the ground. Auctioneer Daniel Kruse of Auburn, Ind.-based Kruse International said the 500-horsepower engine has...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - The Cassini spacecraft successfully fired its engine for 51 minutes Monday to raise its orbit so it will not pass through Saturn's rings on its next close approach to the planet and to set itself on course for another flyby of the big moon Titan on Oct. 26, NASA said. Confirmation of the successful burn was received at 11:51 a.m. PDT, according to a statement from Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the international mission. The maneuver was designed to raise its altitude during the next close approach to Saturn by 186,000 miles. Cassini arrived at Saturn...

Finding open source software on the Internet can often seem like searching for a needle in a haystack. But with the development of a new search engine called AMOS, finding code has just become easier. Aimed at programmers and system integrators, but with the potential to be used by a broader public, the AMOS system applies a simple ontology and a dictionary of potential search terms to find software code, packages of code and code artefacts rapidly and efficiently. 'There is so much open source code and program elements available today that people often don't know what's available or where...

Taken alone, the discovery of these rocket motors doesn't really prove anything. Just like the SA-2 motor found in a scrapyard in Rotterdam. Just like the other scrapped dual-use equipment discovered in junkyards around the world. Just like the sarin-filled artillery round discovered recently. And the other chemical rounds uncovered just before that. And the murder of many Iraqi scientists who were cooperating with US investigators after the invasion. And the burned up computers in a locked weapons research lab. And the rumors of those semi-trucks headed to Syria in the months before the invasion. I mean, this is just...

North succeeds in missile tests, diplomats say According to diplomatic sources, North Korea has recently succeeded in testing the main engine of a long-range ballistic missile. Tests of what the North calls its Taepodong-2 rocket occurred at a launching pad in Musudanri, North Hamgyeong province. They were the first engine firings since December 2002. Such tests are often the last step before an actual flight test of a missile. A foreign diplomatic source said that the experiments were successful, in contrast to an accident during the last round of tests when an explosion destroyed facilities at the launching pad. Intelligence...