Re: Yahoo! R.I.P.?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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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

    http://www.hyperwords.net








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