who in search is really innovating? probably the biggest plus for bing is akamai. thats not an algorithmic improvement.
innovation in search is going to slow down because it is too important to screw with. the risks of trying out radical new approaches to search far outweigh the gains...the fact is, most people have trained themselves to form queries that search engines like
I don't think this has much to do with innovation either. But if these companies wanted to innovate in some radical way they could do it on sites other than their main properties.
I don't think innovation in search will slow down any time soon, because there's just too much to be gained for anyone who comes up with a significant improvement. Not jeopardising their current business is a strong motivation, but not losing out to a newcomer speaks to their paranoia.
Yes we have been trained to use search engines in their current form, but I'm pretty certain that we will unlearn quickly once a better way has been found.
For instance, today, I feel it doesn't make a big difference to use grammatical sentences for searching. If I knew a search engine would try to understand what my intention is, I would start to use grammatical sentences.
innovation in search is going to slow down because it is too important to screw with. the risks of trying out radical new approaches to search far outweigh the gains...the fact is, most people have trained themselves to form queries that search engines like