Sphere scans the blogosphere to bring readers the good stuff. The blog search engine's authors -- Tony Conrad, Martin Remy, Steve Nieker and Toni Schneider -- founded Sphere to answer the question: “Blogs, what are they good for?” Whether you want to read what people are saying or throw your two cents in, Sphere’s advanced searching algorithms make it possible for blog readers to more easily discover great blog content — a very simple idea that takes some smarts to do right. Just a few months after its launch, Sphere had already announced deals with Time.com and About.com. It's no wonder when the service is good enough to inspire TechCrunch's Michael Arrington to say, "Sphere is a new blog search engine that quite frankly blows everything, and I mean everything, out of the water in terms of relevance."