We are starting to see some revelatory musings on how search is going to develop going forward. This series is well worth reading for anyone who is interested in how the web is going to develop.
Thanks to Kaila i’ve been considering the future of search in 2010 or more to the point the future of search itself.
It didn’t take me long to realise that search is going to replaced by receive. How annoying is that to all those businesses involved in SEO 
But seriously if we are still searching in 2010 i will be surprised because by then the web should be evolving into a living and breathing system. This system will not be a library which we dip into hoping that we will find what we are looking for but will be part of us.
Simply put we will become the system.
We won’t need to search anymore as we will be the filter through which information, that we both want and may be interested in, will flow.
Search is an external process: Receive is an internal process.
Relevance technologies will be key to this evolution as will as filtering systems. Receive will be an intelligent learning system. I’m looking forward to this.
Which is the best receive engine?…..that will be the question.
I’m a Londoner who moved to Christchurch, New Zealand in 2002. After studying economics and finance at Manchester University and a couple of years of backpacking I ended up working in the financial markets in London. I traded currencies for 11 years which was more than enough and in 2000 decided to explore new opportunities. I spent 18 months helping start up Trucost, an environmental research company, in London and then moved with my family to Christchurch. Since then I’ve returned to University studying political science and helped start up another company, VortexDNA. I also volunteer for Refugee Services, Christchurch Budget Services and Pillars which keeps me out of mischief. Feel free to contact me with any ideas you want to develop or publicise