well, the search market; there is actually something to watch and play: hakia, in its beta 13 version.

hakia's designers broke from decades-old indexing method and built a more advanced system called QDEX (stands for Query Detection and Extraction) to enable semantic analysis of Web pages, and "meaning-based" search.

and what is factbites, the encyclopedic search engine doing ...

a report about the "user revolution"* as they see it, investors and "adstors".

the new advertising ecosystem and the rise of the internet as a mass medium | investment research

*"The analogy of a revolution is not fully representative of consumer trends, as a revolution generally suggests a sudden and violent change of regime and the current user trends are gradual and, happily, non-violent. However, we feel that the impact of the changes warrants the use of the word revolution."

quote from their content: the Internet is the leading medium at work and the second leading medium at home behind television. | emergence of communitainment: community, communication, and entertainment | a lot about fragmentation: usage of the web while watching tv | mobisodes?? | the golden search: Local search remains a looming opportunity; | video ads | lead generation | and so on and so forth ... let's see.

trend: to turn communication with others into a form of entertainment.

¿what was it before? oh my, must sound pretty medieval to some of them.

Vonnegut takes an easy chair across from Prof. Manuel Luis Martinez, a poet and teacher of writing. He grabs Martinez and semi-whispers into his ear (and the mike) “What can I say here?”

Martinez urges candor.

“Well,” says Vonnegut, “I just want to say that George W. Bush is the syphilis president.”

The students seem to agree.

“The only difference between Bush and Hitler,” Vonnegut adds, “is that Hitler was elected.” | Kurt Vonnegut's Stardust Memory

more to come, i hope as 2007 is declared as the year of vonnegut over there.