Google’s Marissa Mayer on The Future of Search
I saw this article where Marissa Meyer of Google gave a speech on the future of search. I was struck that not much of it was truly new from my days at LexisNexis working on the web search engine.
1. Automated Translation –ok, if they can do this, that would be pretty new!
2. Google Book Search — My former employer, LexisNexis, has had all the important books in its domain (treatises) online for ages
3. Images and Video — friends at LN were working with image search partners five years ago
4. 1-800-GOOG-411 — I had a phone query of LN working five years ago
5. Universal Search — LexisNexis was designing Universal Search for its 33,000 password-controlled premium sources five years ago.
6. Maps and Local Search — I still go to the Yellow Pages at least half the time
7. Client Software (Google Gears, Google Gadgets) — LexisNexis Mobile for the Pocket PC did offline search and retrieve (using AvantGo — remember them? syncing is not new …)
8. iGoogle — I cannot fathom why they are so excited about this. I hate the customized Google home page, I just want the clean default.
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