Development of informatiion search technologies

Description:

Development of search engine technology. As computing becomes more accesible, the number of web pages (and informatiion) on the internet increases day by day. The same hapens in our own computers, where we can now store much more documents than we can read. This creates the need of effective and efficient search engines.

Enablers:

- Moore's laws. Ever cheaper computing power enables more internet users to produce more information.

- The introduction of Google and its aggressive strategy to win the "browsers wars" has benefited all users, not only by making available a better search engine than what existed before, but also forcing other search engines to catch up and improve their own offerings.

Inhibitors:

- Developing and mantaining a search engine has become a game that requires huge investments that are hard to justify as the main form of income comes from selling advertising. After the tech bubble burst, not many people are willing to put money into that business model

- Concerns about non-paid content being influenced by the patronage of the paid advertising. Google and its AdWords gained a lot of attention and market share in recent years. The model has generated profits for the company and has caused others to offer the same. There is not enough disclousure about search rules for editorial and paid content results from search engines.

Paradigms:

- Information is power

- Commanding a large share of the market will allow search engines to develop other sources of income

- Search engines will evolve into intelligent search agents that will help increase productivity

Experts:

Various articles from periodicals were consulted

Timing:

Comming soon....

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