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A few days later, Arrington, citing unnamed sources, posted an update: For unknown reasons, Google had walked away from the deal.

Arrington, a onetime Silicon Valley attorney, was an occasional angel investor before founding TechCrunch in 2005.

"It's cool, but it's a little gimmicky, " said Michael Arrington, founder and co-editor of the technology news Web site TechCrunch.

"Kind of a World Economic thing, " observed Arrington.

Arrington issued a stark ultimatum, that AOL restore "editorial independence" or sell the blog back to him.

Instead of paying to be on stage (once selected) as is done at DEMO, companies selected by Arrington and Calacanis get to present for free.

That launched a torrent of leaks from the struggling Internet company: Arrington would still write but not be paid.

"A lot of people use blogging as a way to get consulting work or their next job, " says Mike Arrington, founder of TechCrunch ( see left ).

And Mr Arrington has yet to provide hard evidence of collusive behaviour.

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington asked Schmidt directly: "What are the hard things to be solved in search in the next ten years? "

The charge was made by Michael Arrington, the founder of a blog called TechCrunch (which was sold to AOL this week).