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posted by Eduardo Favaretto on September 27, 2007 at 04:35 PM |
Search
2.0, Search 3.0: what will be the next (r)evolution?
 "Today
a typical Google search returns up to hundreds of thousands or even millions of
results -- but we only really look at the first page or two of results. What
about the other results we don't look at? There is a lot of room to improve the
productivity of search, and the help people deal with increasingly large
collections of information. Keyword search doesn't understand the meaning of
information, let alone its structure. Natural language search is a little better
at understanding the meaning of information -- but it still won't help with the
structure of information. To really improve productivity significantly as the
Web scales, we will need forms of search that are data-structure-aware -- that
are able to search within and across data structures, not just unstructured text
or semi structured HTML. This is one of the key benefits of the coming
Semantic Web: it
will enable the Web to be navigated and searched just like a database.", said
Radar Networks CEO and Founder Nova Spivack in his blog. O’Reilly Media
co-founder, editor and publisher of MAKE magazine Dale Dougherty, coined
the
term Web 2.0 in 2004, contrary to popular perception. In
a
recent web interview, he said some words about the origin of the term: "a
new generation was going to be coming forward, and they would do things and
think differently than the previous generation... the next new technology was
once again the Web". Google CEO Eric Schmidt
was recently at the
"Seoul Digital Forum" (South Korea) and launched into a great definition of Web
3.0: "applications that are pieced together" - with the characteristics that
the apps are relatively small, the data is in the cloud (Internet), the apps can
run on any device (PC or mobile), the apps are very fast and very customizable,
and are distributed "virally" (social networks, email, etc). What kind of web
search model will we expect to have in 3 years? For some reason, I can't stop
asking myself: so, what will be the next step? We have been noticing some "signs"
regarding the evolution of interface between us and search engines - the way we
interact with them today needs to be easier, because now we need to find other
kinds of contents, not just HTML pages, such as: video, audio files, music,
podcats, presentation files, PDF documents, high definition photos, feeds,
content to mobile devices (ipod, pda, smartphones, etc.). My perception is that
people do not have time enough for anything else... Despite the technology 2.0
or 3.0, the most important step in my opinion is to combine technology
and user-experience (continuum interaction) to help them to find what they want,
in a precise way, wherever they are, using any device instead only computers. |
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posted by Eduardo Favaretto on August 8, 2007 at 08:27 PM |
Social-Collaborative Search: a future vision
 Nothing lasts forever. Good ideas don´t last forever. New ideas appear every day. I leave my message here. My future vision for the search engine market is based on a simple, fast and reliable away for sharing information between users.
The users will give their opinions about a link - if it is good or not, as a "human-filter" instead of having a robot doing this task automatically. A useful search engine tool will emphasize a triad: Search, Collaborate and Share.
You can ask: Hey man, who will control the wrong or false opinion? I answer: the users themselves. Yes, like a Wiki project.
Anonymous users (those known only by an IP address) cannot give their own opinion until they log in (or sign up) themselves. Additionally, this group of users will be moderated by supervisor users to avoid or restrict any abuse - for example: one user gives too many votes about the same link.
The secret will be: invite your friends or people from specialized knowledge niche and help to organize and filter the best links. Specific rules would be a separate policy decision.
Imagine if we could join the best results from the best sources - it would be GREAT!
Traditional search engine mechanisms will survive for the next years?
What do you think about that? Please, let me know. |
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posted by Eduardo Favaretto on July 31, 2007 at 03:55 PM |
Now, Buscas.com.br calls ::buscas.com !
You, we and a lot of Buscas.com.br web site users wait for this moment.
 During this month we have begun the complementary work phase to re-activate the service of this site.
Many of you already know the logo mark launched with the site in the year 2000. From that time to now, a lot of transformations have occurred in the world, in different niches, in "real" economy (as marketers call "brick and cement" economy) and in the new economy, the "virtual" economy (after the Internet bubble explosion also in the year 2000), which is mature and rich with new opportunities, specially during the next few years.
Perhaps you have already noticed that the new logo mark ::buscas.com has adopted a simple, modern and dynamic design, as a result of the continuous and permanent work of our team.
Another important issue to be mentioned: we are 100% Brazilians and we also want to show to the world what we are capable of doing.
Therefore, this is what you will find initially in this service:
1) alternative options to do your searches on the Internet - Google, Yahoo, MS Live Search are very popular, but the Internet is a huge industry and there are other excelent search engines unknown by the users yet;
2) multilingual content in order to reach the entire world;
3) as we are Brazilians, links about Brazil will receive great prominence for here.
Find out our vision for the future of search engine market.
Sign up now and receive an invitation to try ::buscas.com before the official release.
Ask, give your opinion, join in this discussion!
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