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September 27, 2008

Reading the Future of Web Search

Happy Birthday, Google! Google celebrates its 10th. As this article notes, Google has become synonymous with search. It’s in our dictionaries as both a noun and a verb. This piece also highlights other tools and peers into the future of search. “Clustering” engines - - e.g., Clusty - - hold promise, so says the writer. What’s more, the author highlights another trend: visualization of search results. See, for examples, Grokker and Quintura. No mention, though of the Semantic Web (unless I overlooked it). Directories a la Open Directory Project were popular a decade ago. Yet humans can’t keep up with the Web’s exponential growth. Still, some companies are employing human editors. Mahalo is one of them.

posted by Brian at 8:31 am |

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1. Comment by Jason, September 27, 2008 @ 1:41 pm

   
   

   Thanks for the mention! You’re 100% right that humans can’t keep up with the entire web, however humans could do the top 1-5m searches and they make up the top 1/3rd to 50% of searches.

   Mahalo already has 100k pages and 300 folks building/updating them. We will grow to 3,000 folks building pages over the coming years and 1-2m “topic/guide” pages. For the longer tail results we can default to machine search.

   So, it’s not either or in our minds… it’s both!

   best jason

   
   

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