Mid-Week Update: confab.yahoo, Oodle, GenieKnows.com, Trulia

Yesterday, I was over at the confab.yahoo   event on Prediction Markets . You can read my report  about it over on the Read/WriteWeb  . (Thanks, Richard MacManus, for the opportunity!)

The big news in vertical search this week was a white paper   released by Slack Barshinger   and SearchChannel, which projects that revenue from b-to-b vertical search engines will reach $1 billion   by 2009.

In other news:

• Oodle rolled out it's new Personals search service
• GenieKnows.com   launched its Vertical Search Engine
• Roger Ehrenberg talks about Domain Expertise being the key to next-generation search
• Here is an interview with Trulia co-founder, Pete Flint

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Comments

[Jeff Tokarz]

Vertical search, to attain widespread adoption, must demonstrate that it is a better source for relevant information.

Give users more of what they want (relevant search results) and less of what they don't want (mediocre, irrelevant search results)!