The changing landscape of web
search
Phil Bradley
http://www.philb.com
Traditional search engines
• Focus on web pages
• Emphasis the old, not the new
• Give no indication of authority
This results in
• Poor quality data
• ‘Gaming’ of the engine
• Acceptance of results
A search engine wants to be
everything
•Knowledge graph
•Personal results
•Images
•Web pages
•News
•Related searches
Search engines don’t want you to think
Hunt the advanced search!
As for Bing...
Filter bubbles
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheepies/2680273398/
Search is broken
Search engines
• Want to be everything to
everyone
• Be personalised
• To make money from advertising
Growth of data
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-
mcOn9gGAR6A/UIpLx_1LNBI/AAAAAAAAAM4/DgLVhwCJHbs/s1600/internet-one-minute.jpg
http://www.seo-smo.net/content-beyond-the-search-engines/
The rise of social search
http://searchengineland.com/facebook-graph-search-arrives-to-challenge-google-145216
http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/01/bing-ads-current.png
Google fights back
When we need to know
• We go to authoritative sources
– (How do we know what they are?)
• We go to places that we trust
– Libraries, schools, official materials
• We ask the people that we know
How should we be in the future?
• More active in social media
• Contributing across the internet
• Commenting, sharing content
• Guiding people
Using Bookmarking services
Why?
Delicious
http://www.delicious.com/philbradley
Tag filters
RSS Feed
Network feed
Use your feed elsewhere
Diigo
http://www.diigo.com/user/philbradley
Diigo network
Diigo groups
Tumblr
Follow some blogs
Find people you know
Then follow ‘em!
Main screen
News Curation tools
Zite
Zite top stories
FlipBoard
Pulse News
News curation via the web
News.me daily digest
Scoop.it
Trailmeme
Pearltrees
Jogtheweb
http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/FKRZ1SQDhvv7/Multimedia-resources-for-librarians
LiveBinders
Museumbox
Klout, statistics and reach
ManageFlitter
Tweetreach
Twiangulate
MentionMap
TweetStats
Pinterest
Slideshare
Lanyrd
And many more...
In summary
• Future emphasis on the person, not the site
• Authority resides in the individual
• We can and should be everywhere
• Adding content as well as using it
Thank You!
• philipbradley@gmail.com
• philb@philb.com
• http://www.philb.com
• @philbradley
• http://pinterest.com/philipbradley/
• https://delicious.com/philbradley
• https://www.youtube.com/user/PhilbradleyUK

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