Google accelerates drive to sell more software

January 14, 2009 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE , AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- Google Inc. is offering financial incentives to expand the sales network for the software it sells to businesses while restricting the use of a free alternative in its quest to make money on something besides Internet advertising.

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