Survey Results: The Future of Web Search

Thank you to everyone who participated in the last Software Abstractions survey! We asked: which features do you see as the most important ones for Web Search in the future? The results were interesting.

Out of a total of 33 votes, the top votes were closely split between a variety of answers.

• Personalization  [6 votes]
• Social Input  [5 votes]
• Semantic Query  [5 votes]
• Semantic Index  [6 votes]
• Trusted Sources  [6 votes]

For search engines with advanced linguistic parsing capabilities, it's reasonable to assume that semantic processing will be applied to both the query and to the indexed content as a whole. If you combine those two answers, then Semantic Processing is the clear winner with 33% of the votes!

The high number of votes for the "Trusted Sources" answer was a surprise - it's clear that a stronger focus on quality of the results in the future (and their being spam-free) weighs heavily on users.

The complete picture of results is given below:

 

 

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Comments

[Andrew]

Great post. I think Semantic one of best companies.