SiliconBeat notes that Yahoo! has acquired Upcoming.org, a not totally surprising move. What is a bit surprising is that the portals have moved first, and that the newspapers are on the sidelines watching. IMHO, events are second only to maps…

Scoble’s done it again; he’s gone and started a conversation, and this one is a pretty important and timely one for me… enough to rouse me from my blogging coma (or better said, obsessive work focus) to comment… Robert, in…

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…