CILIP Conference 2015
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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Google dismantles its search engine
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We've lost:
- The ~synonym option
- Reading level
- Visted/not visited pages
- Advanced search is limited
- Difficult to reach .com version
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Google's search problems
- 'Right to be forgotten'
- Twitter is better at prediction
- Facebook is stealing Google's business
- Increasing competition from other engines
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Political problems
- "Right to be forgotten"
- April 15th the European Commission wrote a “statement of objections”
- European parliament votes yes on ‘Google breakup’ motion
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Social media problems
- Google+ has failed
- Facebook continues to improve search
- Increasing importance of people over websites
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DuckDuckGo
- Does not track your searches
- Smooth interface
- Neat disambiguation
- Bang (!) searches
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Social Media Search engines
- Social Searcher
- Social Mention
- Topsy
- Icerocket
- Echosec
- Smashfuse
- etc. etc. etc.
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Things to watch out for
- Google loses more functionality?
- Facebook continues to challenge traditional search
- Social media data mining
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And more...
- Instant answers
- Social more prominent in traditional search
- More interaction with results
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Mobile search
- Google's mobilogeddon
- Voice based local search
- Apple's approach to search
- Wearable technology
People, not sites
- Information overload
- Role of trusted people
- Websites will have less value
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Embedded search
- The Internet of things
- Personalised advertising
- Answers without questions
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And libraries?
- Community, not collection
- Trusted advice
- Continual development
THANK YOU!
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Gains
- Wonder (people based search engine)
- Social Searcher
- Echosec (social media geolocation)
- Instya (instant answers)
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