Charlene Li has a very interesting write-up on Verizon’s Pay For Call (PFC) offering. Of particular interest: – Provisioning of local vs. toll-free numbers; the devil’s in the details, and some smart product manager somewhere figured out that offering local…

A huge belated CONGRATULATIONS to Greg Sterling (one of the brightest lights in the search analyst space) on the birth of his second child. Greg, since you started it with the comment about naming rights on eBay, I’m going to…

Deeje calls my attention to a post by Ted Schadler of Forrester (substituting while Charlene Li gets some much deserved R&R) on why PointCast (note the internal caps, folks! *smirk*) died. Ted states, “Push exploded on the scene with Pointcast,…

Siliconbeat has solid coverage of Google’s initial moves into print advertising. This is intesting to me, because a) Overture had been talking about it for at least a year or two when I arrived on the scene in Jan 2003…

Jeremy asks an interesting question in “How did you learn to search?”; actually, it reminds me of a piece that appeared on the Yahoo! Search Blog about a year ago (my response here). In it, he makes the case for…

Jeremy points to the Technorati Accelerator (via his link blog), a parody on Technorati’s current interactive search response time issues. A lot of folks have piled on to Technorati while the company has struggled to keep up with its (and…

Some very, very interesting stats from ClickZ on the distribution of advertiser impressions (by advertiser and advertising category) amongst search engine marketers (SEM)… most notably, that eBay represents ~3% of all SEM impressions. I’ve written before about eBay’s reliance on…

Greg Sterling waxes poetic about the value of query refinement within search verticals. Couldn’t agree more. Semantic (vs. purely statistical) query refinement is a key differentiator for vertical search plays, and one that I’m certainly mindful of as we build…

Deeje says (in discussing various UI treatments in Apple’s current lineup) “Fonts serve no purpose other than to distinguish one set of characters from another.” Err, sorry bud, I’m not following you here. Of course font faces differ from one…

Nice move by Chris Law of Tribe.net to start WSFinder, a wiki of all known open APIs. (via Brad Feld) Hope to see consumer health search represented there at some point in the future.