THE world's most popular search engine, Google, is set to hit the US stock exchange with a bang.

The company intends to sell $2.7bn-worth of shares and you can be guaranteed they will be snapped up, with many people hoping to make millions.

However, it is likely that many employees will also prosper from the move, as Google was set up with the backing of family and friends of the two main owners.

The search engine started life on Stanford University campus in 1996 and in just eight years has become one of the world,s best-known names.

ACHARITY has set up a website to help support the UK library system, which a recent report says is in a dire condition.

Libri (www.libri.org.uk) says the demand for books is at an all time high, with the popularity of Harry Potter just one example of the trend.

But it claims that outdated systems and procedures are suffocating the library service and is calling for drastic changes.

At the moment the site does not have a great deal of content but you can read the report which says libraries have to be more welcoming to people.

WITH today's modern young professionals short on time, what is one to do when the dog needs to go outside to do its business?

Well here is the answer -- the PetaPotty (www.petapotty.com).

Your pooch can have its own piece of grass in the corner of the room where it can take a few minutes for its constitutional.

And of course you have to keep the lawn neat and tidy by trimming it with some scissors.

So head over to the site to see how the litter tray for the 21st Century works.

Only in America.