Micro Persuasion: A9 is a Killer Blog Search Tool I've been checking out A9.com as well, and it does seem to do a nice job of picking up some blog stories, and the Alexa rankings are a nice touch.

Also, The Search Advertising Story and the Quest for Balance , a good story from Traffick.com. I've been wondering about this as well. It's easy to write the "Advertisers on the Internet get fleeced", and there's probably not much resistance at newspapers to writing it, given they're losing ad dollars.