Information and Data Commercialization

With so many people that rely on search engines in the information age, we forget how difficult it will be to find local news articles without making some keystrokes on your keyboard and clicking your mouse. If you think about it, to do some research on news articles from a few months or years ago, you will need to trek to your local library and sort through the Dewey decimal system to find the specific newspaper. Nowadays everyone will rely on search engines, like I had said before.

Google has recently been developing a rather new search engine system, "Google Books." It will allow you to search through author, title, chapters and even specific passages. Now there are still millions of books that are not available through this search engine, and even many that only have limited previews. This has recently been a big breakthrough in the search engine world. So then the question arises: "What's next?"

By thinking outside the box, I tried to imagine what will be the next big jump in search engines. What is one of the biggest entertainment industries on the internet now? Videos. Everyone has heard of YouTube, or Google Video, and numerous other video media websites. Well what if there was a way to recall a video, or a sound file through a search engine with a sound query. Imagine that, singing a song through a microphone that is recorded by the search engine, then submitting the query in which you receive multiple results of videos and sound files that match your sound query.

It seems out of reach now, but that's what all internet innovations have been at one time or another. It is said that Bill Gates even once said "640K of memory is more than anyone would ever need in a computer," whereas now, most computers have 1,500 times that amount in RAM.

We have seen the internet burst into a full blown virus, it is everywhere. And we have yet to see it's limits. As of now, the internet is so heavily reliable on search engines, the only future in search engines is progression.