Recently the Wiki Foundation founder Jimmy Wales announced a new search engine that will be based on user inputs.
What does this mean for Google, which is by far the most extensively used search engine around the world? The search world is extremely fragmented, every few months we have new search engines popping up - from Yahoo! to Google to Chacha, Webcrawler and now Wikiasari. How much longer will this trend continue - is the search space headed for a new "dot.com bubble"? Who will be the victor over this newest battle being played out in the search world?
Whatever the outcome in the search space, it is surely going to be one that is most agile in performing user searches. User's are searching for engines that will provide them with the exact information in the shortest amount of time. No one wants to sift through a million search results only to find one or two useful ones.
Sooner or later we will be witnessing a new Internet revolution, one that is based on user inputs and provides the human element to the online world. This may very well come in the form of web4.0 or holographic technology, where users interaction will go beyond the mouse and keyboard. In fact will be based on web based interactions in virtual online venues. Very much along the lines of the concept of the HoloDeck as depicted in Gene Roddenburry's novel Star Trek.
Already companies like Cisco and HP have embarked in such a direction with there Video Conferencing technologies called Cisco TelePresence and HP Halo respectively. The key in these two Video Collaboration tools is in the experience. The Cisco TelePresence indeed give one the impression of being in the same room as other participants - this is definitely the next best thing to the HoloDeck.
What does this mean for Google, which is by far the most extensively used search engine around the world? The search world is extremely fragmented, every few months we have new search engines popping up - from Yahoo! to Google to Chacha, Webcrawler and now Wikiasari. How much longer will this trend continue - is the search space headed for a new "dot.com bubble"? Who will be the victor over this newest battle being played out in the search world?
Whatever the outcome in the search space, it is surely going to be one that is most agile in performing user searches. User's are searching for engines that will provide them with the exact information in the shortest amount of time. No one wants to sift through a million search results only to find one or two useful ones.
Sooner or later we will be witnessing a new Internet revolution, one that is based on user inputs and provides the human element to the online world. This may very well come in the form of web4.0 or holographic technology, where users interaction will go beyond the mouse and keyboard. In fact will be based on web based interactions in virtual online venues. Very much along the lines of the concept of the HoloDeck as depicted in Gene Roddenburry's novel Star Trek.
Already companies like Cisco and HP have embarked in such a direction with there Video Conferencing technologies called Cisco TelePresence and HP Halo respectively. The key in these two Video Collaboration tools is in the experience. The Cisco TelePresence indeed give one the impression of being in the same room as other participants - this is definitely the next best thing to the HoloDeck.
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