Begin forwarded message:
From: Frode Hegland <frode@hyperwords.net>
Date: August 9, 2009 9:47:05 AM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>, edyson@edventure.com
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Yahoo! R.I.P.?
On 9 Aug 2009, at 01:39, David Farber wrote:
Huh? Yahoo! was originally a directory, not a search company, and a portal company.
Whatever, I do not think they could now succeed as a search company. I think they *do* have some chance of succeeding as a content/portal company. And FWIW, I don't think search is the end of history (for the commercial internet).
Yes indeed Esther.
But how long did it take us to search the site rather than click through the hierarchy?
The future of the internet is not all search, I wholeheartedly agree.
What we have today is an information environment where we can only navigate by:
Hand-written keyword searches
Pre-made links &
Explicit URl's
I feel that we need to make the whole web much more usefully and powerfully interactive: http://www.hyperwords.net/demo.html if you would like to see a very short video demo of what this means.
Every word, every sentence, every paragraph, can be it's own search, it's own link to it's dictionary entry, translations into different languages and everything else the internet has to offer.
Anyway, just had to get that off my chest. Search is amazing. But it ain't all :-)
frode hegland
The Hyperwords Company Ltd.
59 Brewer Street, London W1F 9UN
United Kingdom