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Governor Tom Corbett today toured Google Pittsburgh, where he highlighted his proposed budget's commitment to growing the state's economy and helping employers create jobs. The facility employs more than 150 engineers who are critical to the development of Google's core initiatives in Search and Ads. Corbett will be in Erie Thursday to tour Industrial Sales and Manufacturing Inc., which built the cancer-killing external radio-frequency generators invented by the late John Kanzius. Photo provided by Commonwealth Media Services

13 more social networking sites, including those owned by Google, Yahoo! and AOL, have agreed to remove New York sex offenders from their sites. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says that as of Thursday, 15 major social networking companies have agreed to use the state's Electronic Securing and Targeting of Online Predators Act. Last week, Facebook and MySpace removed more than 3,500 sex offenders from their networks. http://www.oag.state.ny.us/media_center/2009/dec/dec10a_09.html