What is the future of Search & Discovery?

Question

Consider Digg.com, Reddit, Yahoo! Answers, Google, Flikr, Upcoming and other services. As their popularity rises and they continue to innovate and spread reach, what does the future hold for search, navigation and discovery on the internet? In the coming months and years how will we interact and learn? How will we find the right products, news, entertainment and education? What are the tools that you would like to see? What is your favorite tool that have you found thus far?

Why am I interested? Because I'm trying to find out what everyone here thinks Web 3.0 will look like... then I'm going to build it.

Answer 1

Grim, I'd say. Same fate as oil. With the rate of recent discoveries constantly increasing, pretty soon there'll be nothing left to discover. :P

Answer 2

Someone needs to put the "web" into the Internet full of information. Problem today is that search returns too much info. It would be good if each datum returned belongs to a point in a large 3D web, and make it easy to see how that piece of data relates to other data. For example, search for "Bay Area Real Estate" and you get lists of unorganized links. Why not have different "catagories" such as lenders, available listings, agents, news stories, whatever the catagory as points on the map, with connected items in a web fashion. Lenders could connect to rates, rates connect to Federal reserve actions, Fed connected to inflation data, etc. Each point can connect to dozens or even hundreds of other points like stars in constellations. Hope I'm making sense. I'm suggesting this because I often get search results that are remotely or perhaps not even related to my query, but I would get multiples of the same type of results (e.g. I'm looking for Real Estate listing, but get 7 different lenders link). It'd be good if those similar pages are together as a single in a map while lenders are in another point in the 3D map.

Answer 3

eternal