Interesting news item about the future of search.

Analyst Sue Feldman presented her views to the Enterprise Search Summit West.

Key points:

• A convergence of tools in search.
• Move away from today's transaction based platform towards a knowledge platform.
• Improved capibilities in terms of concepts, relationships, and modes of communication, including speech
• One problem that needs solving is selection: which information do you trust?
• Getting the right information to the right people at the right time.
• Move from transactional computing to user-centric interaction models. See my early post about relationships.
• More automation of knowledge work across multiple devices.
• Search will eventually be embedded in the platforms and applications, as opposed to a separate function.
• Search will be at the center of interactive computing as search is language based - the human mode of communication.

Full post here.