Panel Discussion - Search Engine Meeting Morning Notes, Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Posted by: Marc Boucher in Search Engine TechnologyAfter the morning break we reconvened for the panel discussion, Search: The Next Decade. Participants included;
- Susan Feldman (Moderator), IDC
- Suranga Chandratillake, blinkx
- Josh Jacobs, X1
- Andrew McKay, FAST
The panel discussion lasted an hour and half. However it was not so much a panel but rather a forum for the speakers to posit their ideas on the future. They spent nearly an hour and 15 minutes on this leaving barely 15 minutes from other panel members or the audience for questions.
One recurring theme is that managing information for the average user is time consuming.
To illustrate this a slide was shown which listed a breakdown of much time we spend on different tasks. Here’s the breakdown for businesses.
- We spend an average 14.5 hours a week on email which costs the company $21k a year.
- We spend an average 13.3 hours a week creating documents costing $19K a year
- We spend an average 9.9 hours a week analizing docs costing $17k a year
- We spend an average of 9.5 hours a week searching costing $14k a year
and there was much more.
Another item mentioned is that Google is not the end of search, there’s lot’s of innovation and growth to come.
And they presented a short overview list of potential future trends;
- dynamic unified access to content and data in real time
- real time updating and querying
- integrated browse, search and analysis
- relationships among information elements extracted and built on the fly
- real time reporting across content collections and databases with database and text mining operations
- pattern detection and machine learning to keep index dynamic and uncover new relationships
- visual tools for analysis of large information collections
- easy to use intuitive interfaces: - conversational interactive systems - mixed initiatives query refinement
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