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Jessie Seyfer has a good Q&A on the BlackBerry/NTP suit. What patent dispute is about; what it means for BlackBerry users.

This has been a big year for online search. The number of people using search engines on an average day jumped from roughly 38 million in June 2004 to about 59 million in September 2005 – an increase of about 55%, according to a study just released from Dogpile.com - the metasearch engine that searches Google, Yahoo, MSN and AskJeeves
Tracking search queries is becoming the online equivalent on Nielsen data and as 2005 comes to a close, Dogpile.com says the year’s most popular search term was “music lyrics,” as no single comprehensive site catalogs lyrics and consumers must rely heavily on search to get them there
Paris Hilton topped the most-searched celebrity list and came in #2 overall.
Here’s something that I found most fascinating from the study: Did you know only 1.1% of search results from the top four search engines overlap. Try it yourself by clicking here.

During a London talk on the need for more civility in the blogosphere by a top U.S. blogger, things got pretty, well, uncivil. link: Six Apart chief’s ‘nice’ speech ends in name-calling.

I used to love Wikipedia, the collaorative online user-contributed encylopedia. But because it has been open to anyone to post or add to articles, too many of its entries are questionale or self-serving. Sometimes they’re mean-spitited and intentionally false. Because there are so many warped and twisted people out there who, like hackers, want to ruin a good thing, I think its value is now questionable these days as this USA Today via Yahoo! News piece aptly explains… It’s online, but is it true?

From my F5ee Press column today… more proof that eBay is the way to sell anythng and that there are people waiting to pay a fortune for the stuff gathering dust in the basement: MIKE WENDLAND: Pile of vintage toys rakes in cash on eBay.

Is this really a disorder? Or media hype? Whatever, I’m pretty sure I have it. Hooked on the Web: Help Is on the Way.

The old saying that it’s pretty hard to ever really erase something from a computer sure seems true in this case.  Accused wife-killer Googled ‘Neck,’ ‘Snap,’ Among Other Words.