In today's daily news podcast, Google's growth outpaces rivals, and France launches its own search engine project. Microsoft unveils a promised repatched patch, ships IE7 Beta 2, narrows down Longhorn Server's ship date, and spars with the EU. A Firefox bug could be cause for concern, some Mac resellers are preinstalling XP on the new Mac Portable, and a survey says consumers like TV, phone, and Web "bundles." The Editor's Note examines the latest weird news for the wired.

Patricia Keefe is your host.

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