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Internet search giant Google unveiled Chrome, a new piece of Web browser software on Tuesday. Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of SearchEngineLand.com, explains what Google's open-source browser can do, and why a search engine leader wants to get into the Web software market.

The cloud-computing service went down around midday on Tuesday, and Amazon said the issue was resolved just after 5 p.m. ET. Thousands of companies were affected by the outage.

Day to Day senior producer Steve Proffitt joins NPR's Alex Chadwick to discuss Web sites that offer advice to would-be expatriate Americans. Some disappointed liberals plan to move to another country to protest the re-election of President Bush.

Ironically, there's one piece of Web history that can't be found online: the very first page. Now, a team at the lab where the World Wide Web was born is on a hunt for old hard drives and floppy disks that might hold copies of the missing files.

Moses Asch spent years collecting and compiling the world's sounds. Working through a number of small record labels including Folkways Recordings, Asch explored a world of sound -- not just music, but birds, bugs and machines. Asch died in 1986. But now the Smithsonian has put his entire collection of sounds on the Web.

Henry Farrell, co-author of the Foreign Policy magazine article "Web of Influence," discusses a growing phenomenon: runaway rumors and false information flooding the Internet.

Alex Chadwick talks with Jessica Morgan, co-creator of GoFugYourself.com -- a humorous Web site which has just won an award for best writing in a blog. The site features less-than-flattering pictures of celebrities, along with some very funny captions.

A failed TV pilot's new life online shows how networks are trying to harness the fringe fiefdoms of Web video. For NBC, the Web is a frontier for new content, and a way to cement the communities around its broadcast shows.

The campaigns of President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, experiment with what works with political ads online. NPR's Robert Smith reports.

Microsoft warns about a flaw in Internet Explorer. It's apparently been exploited to target financial and defense companies.