Slate has an excellent post about Google Wave at:
http://www.slate.com/id/2232311/

Here's the post:

The Google Wave chatting tool is too complicated for its own good.
By Farhad ManjooPosted Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009, at 6:42 PM ET

Google Wave

Razorfish's Joshua Palau poses an interesting question - "Is Search Innovative?" on Search Engine Watch at:
http://searchenginewatch.com/3634828

Here's the post:

Is Search Innovative?
By Joshua Palau
Search Engine Watch
Aug 28, 2009

During a recent conversation with a few clients, they surprised me by remarking, "Well, search really isn't all that innovative."

Their rationale: for the better part of the last 10 years, there have been only three engines (and depending on your budget, you may only be working with one) and their offerings have remained more or less the same.

Kim Toomey has a helpful article on using Google Analytics' Custom Reports on the Social Search Marketer Blog at:
http://www.socialsearchmarketer.com/1497/google-analytics-spotlight-cust...

Here's the post:

Google Analytics Spotlight: Custom Reports
by Kim Toomey on August 4, 2009

Blogstorm has a useful article on using Google Analytics at:
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/keyword-funnel-tracking-google-analytics/#mor...

Here's the post:

First click & keyword funnel tracking with Google Analytics

by Patrick Altoft on July 22, 2009

Google Analytics has one major drawback for ecommerce sites – it only gives credit to the keyword or referring source a visitor clicked on the last time they visited the site.

A Court in the UK has ruled that Google is not liable for defamation. The Guardian has the story at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/20/google-defamation-high-court...

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Google not liable for defamation in search results, rules high court
Internet giant Google wins landmark high court libel ruling over forum comment displayed in search results
Mark Sweney guardian.co.uk, Monday 20 July 2009

Joshua Palau takes a mid-year look at some 2009 predictions on Search Engine Watch at:
http://searchenginewatch.com/3634000

Here's the post:

Checking in on 2009 Search Shifts & Predictions
By Joshua Palau
Jun 5, 2009

We're a society of predictors. And from Jim Cramer to countless overconfident athletes, a lot of predictions go awry.

Microsoft's Ray Ozzie calls Google Wave "anti-web" at:
http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/06/google-wave-is-anti-web/

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Google Wave “is anti-Web”
June 5, 2009
by Richard Waters

That was the verdict of Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s top software guru, when I got to ask him last night what he thought about Google’s hugely ambitious attempt to remake email, IM and, um, just about everything else.

John Pacczkowski interviews Google's Amit Singhal in Digital Daily at:
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090605/google-and-the-evolution-of-...

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Google and the Evolution of Search III: What’s Next in Search? Much, Much Better Search
by John Paczkowski
Posted on June 5, 2009

The estimable David Berkowitz has a great take on Google Wave in Mediapost's Social Media Insider at:
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=1...

Here's the post:

Wave Riding Over Bing
by David Berkowitz
June 2, 2009

In the future, my dad will be a blogger. He'll create wikis. He'll have his work translated into languages spoken across Europe, Asia, and South America. He'll accomplish it effortlessly with Google Wave. I watched the 80-minute developer preview of Wave, and it's going to make nearly everyone a social media creator.

Mohsin Khawaja thinks that Google Wave is much better then Twitter. His analysis is in Search Journal at:
http://search.sys-con.com/node/981854

Here's the post:

Google Wave Is Much Better Than Twitter

Wave is much better, interactive, fun and less-hectic than some of today's top social media tools
By Mohsin Khawaja

Google has just launched a new WAVE in the Social Media World and it is named "GOOGLE WAVE"

Google wave is unique in the sense that it is "both a conversation and document"