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Google takes aim at Mexico's drug cartels  By Martha Mendoza  AP
National Writer   WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. >> Google, so far,
has won the search engine wars. Now it wants to target
international crime, including Mexico's powerful drug cartels.
Eric Schmidt, Google Inc.'s executive chairman, has taken a keen
interest in Mexico, where more than than 47,500 people have been
killed in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderón
launched an offensive against the cartels in 2006. Schmidt
recently visited most of Mexico's most violent cities, Ciudad
Juarez, where civic leaders asked if he could help.  "Defeated,
helpless, these people have been so hardened in their experience
with cartels that they have lost battles and they have lost
hope," Schmidt told a conference on international crime this
week. "They were looking for a universal hammer to protect them.
For me the answer was obvious