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The Chinese government knows this, which is why it fears search engines. Google should not give in to their demands. One of the sites that have been delisted in Google News is Epoch Times. "I used to tell people that the Chinese government even tried to block Google. Now, I have to tell people that Google filters out my newspaper," Simon Thomas of Epoch says.

In other news on Monday, Find.com signed PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBISWorld, IOMA, Datamonitor and Mintel as new premium content providers for its business search engine. Find.com was founded in June 2004 to provide a solution for business professionals in need of precise and reliable business-related information.

"As these partners allow us to tap into their proprietary search databases to provide business professionals with access to premium content, Find.com continues to set itself apart as the one true business search engine that is available to the public,” stated Chris Travers, CEO of Find.com.

In other news, Moreover Technologies introduced a free, ad-supported service that enables Internet surfers to set up a customized sample of news headlines from various outlets around the World Wide Web.

San Francisco-based Moreover licenses technology that aggregates headlines and makes news searchable for Web visitors to partners, including Microsoft's MSN. This week, Moreover opened up its Really Simple Syndication (RSS) news aggregation feeds to the public, reintroducing a service it once shelved for lack of a profit scheme.

In other developments on Tuesday, Google may be defeating exclusive news stories, some observers think. Quick: which newspaper and which journalists got the exclusives on Watergate? That's easy, of course: The Washington Post, and Woodward and Bernstein. Now a harder one: who had the first stories about the abuses inside Abu Ghraib prison?

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