As someone who has been in the search business for more years than I’d ever like to disclose, I can say unequivocally that it’s more exciting than ever to be in this market segment. More than any other time since the turn of the century, 2007 looks to be the year of a revolution in search, or at least a major step in evolution. Not since the days of Google actually having to battle for search supremacy has there loomed such fundamental and important changes in the landscape. We are on the brink of entering a new era in search, one in which people will actually be involved in the search process, not just passive users.
One significant development in the evolution of the Internet recently is technology that allows ordinary people to share virtually anything on the Internet. Hasn’t that been possible for the last seven or eight years, you might ask? Nope. The content that gets on the Internet has always been contributed by “web publishers,” not just ordinary people. There is an entire universe of information stored on hard drives, CDs, memory sticks and more that would never have seen the light of day on the Internet in the past. Just imagine a new source of information, contributed by ordinary people, just now flowing into a place where it can be shared with all of us. A new dimension to search.
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