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I ran across this announcement today about SearchForVideo.com and checked it out.  Looks pretty good.  A quick comparison of with Truveo (see yesterday’s post) found that SearchForVideo.com found nearly twice as many videos matching the search term "John Roberts" (634 vs. 349) I haven’t spent enough time to study the differences in methodology, but it’s…

Interesting commentary over at Personal Democracy Forum over the merits of advertising on blogs vs. WashingtonPost.com.  Henry Copeland of BlogAds suggested in a debate at the Online Politics conference earlier this month that you’d hit more eyeballs with a buy on political blogs than on the Post web site. Kate Kaye astutely points out that…

Robert Scoble likes Bloglines Citations for its ability to track blog conversations.  He points to the recent item about Microsoft preferring the term "blogcast" over "podcast."  He’s right … that’s a good service. But more to the point, it will be interesting to see whether the blogcast term catches on.  Obviously, right now it’s being…

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Jason Calacanis takes a look at what the recent changes in the search/portal area mean — and how he sees things going in the future. Another day, another series of amazing changes in our industry. Today Microsoft got into Google’s Adsense business, Yahoo finally admmitted they are in the content business, and Google is getting…