As described in a post on TechCrunch called “Is This The Future Of Search?” and as appearing in this Video proposed by Adrian Pike, Google is getting closer and closer to amplifying its core activities, the Search, with some Knowledge management flavor.
Google digg-style screenshot
As you can see from the image above, this approach will offer users the opportunity to: manage search results, rate them, redefine the list of results, cancel results and add comments.
So doing, it seems like the “next” search will be deeply influenced by KM activities, precooked by other surfers on the same keyword. Google by definition is an engineer company: automation and machine-driven activities have been a given approach until now. Things seem to be changing and a new “victory” of collaboration is on the way!
2 Comments
17 July 2008 at 14:30
I’ve been reading along for a while now. I just wanted to drop you a comment to say keep up the good work.
21 November 2008 at 10:48
[...] it seems like I won’t be one of the few testers able to see it (remember my post called Google and knowledge management some months ago???) but one of the usual million users who will benefit! Possibly related posts: [...]