Seems a bit slow, although not overly so. BTW, I just did the vanity test for you, and for "Philipp", I don't see a Google Blogoscoped URL anywhere in the results ... but the majority of results are other blogs referencing you.

'Top Searches This Hour:
Web 2.0
Sex
...'

The custom range is quite cool (though flash)
Example:

Sorry, http://sphere.com/search?q=stephen+colbert&datedrop=custom&sortby=rel&lang=en&allfrom=&startdate=20060428&enddate=20060502&histdays=120

I like design and custom range tool. Also like related media block. But Sphere doesn't find any cyrillic blogs.

Sure looks rubbish to me. The interface reminds me of one of those parked domains that is covered with Adsense ads. Not that it is covered in ads but is is overly curved on the corners like these parked domains often are.

Techcrunch is going wild on it with a double bill (podcast and blogpost).

I'm not impressed. The results for my blog were wrong in terms of the profile information. And it seems to have a lot of junk in the results.

Not that great, only 7 result from this site.

They did not even have Matt's Blog – has to submit it both as a blog and as a featured blogger.

you would think that anything in technorati top 100 would automatically be in their database.

Still, it hold promise – and is convenient.

Hmmm... I've only been blogging for a week but they have my Flash Driven blog. The profile isn't updated on my end but hey i like them because they included my work. Ha ha ha!