The Guide To Search: Why Social & Mobile Are The Future

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With Social Media developing at a rapid pace and search engines becoming smarter, the emergence of social search was expected to be the next big thing.

Search is currently in a transition period right now. As algorithms become more complex and the major search engines introduce new features, it’s clear that our expectations about how search should work and what it can do for us has risen with every new development. It’s not enough that it just suggests relevant information.

Now we demand that it comes faster, becomes more accurate and matches our tastes and interests.

Throw Siri and Google Now (or at least, the potential of Siri and Google Now) into the mix and the idea that the very concept of search will be radically different in three to five years time is a distinct possibility.

Social search was seen as the next step in this process. Using our profiles to filter and curate the content we want to see, the results have been mixed. Google’s insistence on using Google+ and its +1 system has been criticised because it neglects the more popular social media sites to plug its own.

On the other hand, Bing has struggled to even dent Google’s hold on search, despite championing its social search feature – partly because Microsoft has a stake in Facebook. Throw in the massive rise of mobile search, and the concept of search is evolving in a way that we mightn’t have expected.

One thing is certain: With more and more content being created online, a new way of curating and processing the vast waves of information out there will necessity. With Google making small changes to search – both on desktop and mobile – and Bing pushing its social credentials even further, the race is on to see who can discover (or possibly stumble) upon the next stage of search.

 
Marty Note
I scooped into Startup Revolution as a counter to VC Geoff Lewis’ statement, “Social is over,” this morning on Squawk Box. Jeff, a VC from Founders Fund, may be correct in the absolute sense but social is going to be the underpinning of many, many things, so he is WRONG (lol).

I understand his money is moving downstream after the Facebook IPO disaster and down another 5% today as the lockout expires on big institutions (running off the ship like rats it would appear).

Anntonino is right here, as he usually is, and Lewis is wrong. Social as he understands it, someone investing in front of the curtain, is over. Social for what we do as Internet marketers is just beginning.

Social will help Internet marketers increase conversions, win SEO and create community for a long, long time since we hardly know how to use these tools now. We are at the beginning of the middle not the beginning of the end of social.

And Antonino is right. Future is SoLoMo (social, local and mobile) with search being the hub of it all :). M

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