The competition among major search engines is intense, to say the least. Here is a very interesting article about this: http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=4628&sid=-1&t=special_reports_convergence2005
It is truly amazing how things change and how fast. Just a few years ago, it was difficult to find Indias in USA who wanted to go back to India and now the number of students who want to come to USA is reducing very rapidly. Among several articles that keep appearing in media, India [...]
Podcasting is now entering mainstream. See:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/technology/25podcast.html?th If people are producing audio files and posting them on the web for others to access them, there should be a mechanism to easily search them. As we saw new approaches to search with the rise of blogs, new approaches will be required to search audio files. RSS like [...]
Finally a true multimedia device is emerging that may become a very powerful device in the age of converged communication, computing and content (CCC). It is clear that communication, computing, and content are converging, but the process of this convergence has been very similar to a common situation where people from one area view at [...]
Search engines are working very hard to index all knowledge that exists in electronic form. In fact, the recent efforts by Google and others to digitize old documents in libraries so those documents could also be indexed is very interesting. The idea clearly is to maximize the material that is available in different documents to [...]