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Everyone in the search marketing biz is pretty familiar with automated emails soliciting link requests as well as those for reciprocal link exchanges.

The upcoming Skype version 2.5, seen at the eBay Developer’s Conference, apparently will let you send or request money to other users directly from the client software. Since eBay, Paypal, and Skype are all one big happy family, you’ll be able to Paypal money easily while chatting with the person you’re talking to. Camwhores: Paypal $3 for another 5 minutes of show?

Security specialist Symantec, the maker of Norton antivirus and security software, said it has identified a worm that infects Yahoo Web-based e-mail.The worm called Yamanner targets all versions of Yahoo Web-based mail except the latest beta version, Symantec said in an advisory released Monday.

At Motley Fool, the investor site, Seth Jayson, says he “occasionally entertain[s] the thought that Google has, in fact, destroyed the Internet. Well, not the physical Internet, mind you. Just the whole ‘looking for data’ part of it that’s key to Google’s (alleged) information-based mission. The part that’s held the key (so far) to its financial success.”

Google’s quest for domination of the World Wide Web took another giant step forward this month. Not satisfied with crushing Yahoo! and steamrollering MapQuest, the techno-geeks at the world’s largest search engine have set their sights on putting newspaper columnists, and just about everyone else in the forecasting business, out of business.