Eric Schmidt On Web 3.0
Google CEO Eric Schmidt was recently asked at a conference what Web 3.0 would look like. After acknowledging that Web 2.0 is more of an overhyped marketing term that vaguely means practically nothing, he did give a good answer of what he thinks the future architecture of web applications will look like:
(via Richard MacManus)
I think in time, there won’t be any need for search engines.
Certainly not in their current form. And this is something Google themselves have been pondering.
If we assume that at some point we will be supported by (hemmed in and out-numbered?) by ’smart apps’ that will know us and our stuff, our stuff will just come to us without any need for us to go find that stuff in the first place.
Maybe the nomenclature will change?
Maybe we’ll call them found engines, because the process of auto-discovering relevant content will be a done deal?
Comment by Wayne Smallman | August 21, 2007
I think he misses one major point. They will be intelligent! They will start to move away from this push and pull data to a point where the application just know what you want. It’s not going to be AI…
Comment by Brian Harris | August 21, 2007
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