Google’s search used to be cool. Now, it is becoming more and more just an empty search box.
What search engines are up and coming? It used to be twitter and facebook, but now those are running the risk of becoming blasé, too. One person who has a lot of experience in this field is John Battelle, and he’s just posted a new blog post that seems to be thinking along these lines: “On Thneeds and the “Death of Display”“.
Here’s my comment on it:
Great ideas percolating here, John: Moving from focus on content to focus on container… This seems like a first step away from the Wisdom of the Click towards the Wisdom of the Language(?) — yet I think perhaps it’s time to *retire* Google (they *were* successful, but IMO they have more of a past than a future — but of course near-sighted fools will call that “crazy”
BTW: I think people who are long on Pinterest will definitely get burnt (maybe that’s also the case for the elephant in the room — $100B sounds rather far-fetched if you ask me… unless they manage to reign in the astronomical visions and bring the game-plan back down to Earth [then they *might* have a chance ;])
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