I’ve been trying to stay out of the size debate for the last few days while I digest what others have been saying. Now that I’ve done that, I get to react to a few of the things I’ve been reading.

In a move that is being called an effort to maximize their marketing investment, Amazon Services will begin offering search engine marketing services, courtesy of Efficient Frontier.

The total blogosphere has been doubling in size every five months or so for the past couple of years. That’s 80,000 new blogs set up everyday. IceRocket’s Mark Cuban questions in his blog, though, about how many of these blogs are legit and how to index them.

About two years ago, I had a go at commercial web site design. I put a medium-sized ad in a London classified ad paper. Nothing fancy: “Web designer seeks work …” etc. This was expensive, about 500 for a month’s run.

When subscribers’ email readers (programs) receive your text newsletter, they will display it in all kinds of ways. Not only are there different programs, but each one has several customization options.

The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and IBM have plans to boost Argonne’s INCITE computer capabilities.

It looks like Intel has become a big believer in XML, as it acquires XML solutions firm Sarvega for undisclosed terms.

Combine two dynamite online methods for bringing your business to the attention of buyers – Local Search and widely posted articles you write. Doing both gives you a jump on your local competition, plus additional credibility and exposure to your market.

Price comparison shopping via Google’s Froogle service is now just a phone call away for mobile users.

Danny’s fed up with the search engine index size wars, and proposes that the biggies duke it out on a more important front: relevancy (or relevance as we like to call it over here). He proposes that they all agree on some sort of standard test and to have an independent institute or consortium run the tests.

Former America Online employee Jason Smathers learned the hard way that crimes in cyberspace are real crimes as a US District Court judge sentenced him to a year and three months in prison. Smathers, a software engineer, admitted to stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and then selling them to spammers.

The self-proclaimed “Mother of all Search Engines” signed a letter of intent and will pay cash and stock for desktop search tech company Copernic.

It appears as if MSN Search will continue to focus a good amount of their development skills on the MSN Search Toolbar, which is famous for finally introducing tabbed browsing to the Internet Explorer environment.

Yahoo made a statement recently about having the biggest base of items to draw upon in the search world. This claim had been held by Google for quite a while and now Yahoo claims otherwise. Many of the voices in the search world say that size doesn’t matter, it’s all about relevance.

The Redmond-based software and game console company now wants to kick Photoshop off your computer.

Well, it seems that I get to quote Greg Linden a second time today. He points to the Yahoo’s Personality Crisis article that’s been stirring up a bit of discussion about whether Yahoo! will be opened or closed.

The wireless carrier has disclosed an agreement that makes it the official telecom sponsor for the National Football League.

The Backup Exec software contains a problem that imperils backup servers, and systems with remote backup agents installed.

RSS is commonly defined as really simple syndication. So, this means that any material contained in a feed is available for syndication, right? Well no, not exactly.

As Mozilla’s Firefox becomes more widely used, IBM has agreed to donate 50,000 lines of code to Web browser to make it more accessible to users with disabilities.

Another entrant in the SMS search engine and services field has announced a panoply of partnerships and offerings.

The world of search software is getting cooler and cooler. Available in beta until the end of the summer Chicago-based Intellext has released Watson 2.0, a sort of “search butler” standing alongside you as you work, searching for relevant topics as you go.