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In other signs that say Google (and other search engines) need to fight the growing problem of spyware, on Tuesday, Tim Yu, a Stanford University student, recently found that one of his family's computers was infected with a program called "BrowserAid/Featured Results," which was delivering additional and unwanted pop-up ads atop Google results. He managed to rid the computer of that application, but a similar, unidentifiable program could not be eliminated.

"I removed it from the registry, but this one heals itself," Yu said. Spyware makers, he said, are getting more sophisticated. And that's a problem for Google, as new strains of spyware attempt to profit from the highly popular search engine and its lucrative pay-per-click advertising programs.

In other developments on Tuesday, Apple Computer focusses on search technology, as it develops a new content indexing and search engine planned for Mac OS X 10.4. During Steve Jobs's keynote presentation for this week's Worldwide Developer Conference, Jobs took the wraps off the new technology, titled "Spotlight", and compared it with the database file system Microsoft has promised for its 2006 Longhorn release, slated for 2006 - 2006.

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