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In other developments this week, Google is polishing and increasing the number of search tools that it sells to companies, schools and government agencies, hoping to mine new revenue sources as it strives to become less dependent on online advertising. (Can anybody guess this company is going public?)

AP Wire reports that Google on Wednesday took another small step beyond its renowned online search engine releasing its most significant upgrade of a 2-year-old kit that’s sometimes called Google in a box. Google’s top-of-the-line corporate intranet search system, priced at $175,000, will index up to 1.5 million Web pages and perform 300 search queries per minute - five times the capacity and speed of the earlier version, said Dave Girouard the company’s general manager of enterprise. A less sophisticated version of the kit will sell for $32,000.

With Google still in the news, on Thursday, Californian senator Arnold Schwarzenegger will soon be deciding on whether Google’s Gmail should be cancelled before it is even born. While the ironies will be apparent to anyone who has seen Arnie’s Terminator trilogy, Californian senators have approved a bill that limits Google's plans to scan messages and include ads based on what it finds.

Soon it will be up to the former action hero if the law will live or die. Gmail has caused a storm in a tea-cup before it has actually been released. The scheme is still being tested by tame journalists and Google staff and is only a few months away. For news on Friday: despite their differences, Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves said they have pretty much the same mission, and essentially the same message to those seeking to improve their search engine rankings: it's all about relevancy.

Yahoo Search Director of Product Management Tim Mayer began his part of the session with a presentation outlining the new Yahoo search platform (YST). Though many of the features were announced in February, it was clear that the majority of session attendees were unaware of the width and breadth of the enhanced Yahoo offering.

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