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Original Post: Mobile Search is Not GOOGLE SEARCH
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I debated long and hard whether I would post this thesis. The search world is about to make a dramatic change.
Background, currently of 4 to 5 billion internet users worldwide 3/4ths of that number is Mobile. 2009 is the first year where the amount of always-on-web handsets sales is set to reach 1 billion devices. Based on those growth trends search can no longer be this stale search box entity no longer as the mobile user demands a search service that is far different.
Small devices require intelligence in the search service along with a pull way in defining what not only we search for in form of terms, but also in the form of how we filter those results and how those results are used and delivered to us on a mobile device. while centralized search server concept can lend itself to supplying more inteligent search services it fials in the context o fuser generate content search as the human search filters created with our human relationships is far stronger in AI behavior and intelligence than any Google Search Mathematics.
While certainly the stale internet search which always have some utility in the mobile space the mobile search of the growing User Generated Content data sets if far by most the future mobile search market both in depth of size of that data set to search and mobile user demand for such services. The constraints for mobile use is of course different in that we want to pull information not have information pushed to us and we want the control over privacy not the service have control over our privacy.
This set of opportunities and constraints lend itself towards a decentralized mashup mobile-search-by-location something far greater than Loopt and Google Latitude. Let me give you an example. Let us use Twitter.
So you have this twitter friend who is say at a food place and is raving about this food place. Normally you would have to tweet back what food place, directions to food place, and etc. That is a whole lot of tweets to do on any Mobile Device even on a touch handest such as iPhone. what if you did not have to do that because the app that you are using, say Xspot, is associating GPS data with the tweets because you and your friend set your privacy settings for that to happen using Xspot?
Than you could do a search eat food and it would bring up all occurrences grouped by location But its better than that, wait. Now we than have it set up so that you are able to assign GPS locations to feeds. Let us say you are new in Chicago and do not yet have enough friends. You look for some public feed to get food place information and etc. In other words that public feed or private feed if y9ou get your friend's permission to assign GPS to it becomes that mobile search intelligence.
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