Good friends like my CommerceV3 colleague Marc Bigbie, and members of the New Marketing Social network, are trying to talk me off the ledge when it comes to my reactions to Google Instant.

Marc and others were kind enough to point me to Chris Crum's piece on WebProNews, Worried About Google Instant? Maybe You're Worrying Too Much About Search.

Crum's point is not to refute that Google Instant stacks the deck against long-tail search terms, and the folks who live or die by them.

Rather, he's s...