Back To Search – It All Comes Full Circle

On the drive home from BigOmaha Aaron Webb asked me what I thought was the next big thing coming to the web. We discussed the evolution of blogs, rss, podcasting, video, microblogs, etc. I said I thought things would come full circle back to search.

Today, Louis Gray spilled the beans on TweetMeme…

The search engine indexes new stories as they are found in Twitter, and offers a great deal of filtering and customization. You can sort results by “Best Match”, “Age” and “Retweet Count”, showing the most popular forwarded tweets. Meanwhile, the results display categories for each update, and you can even filter by the media type, including news, images or videos.

Then Scoble pointed us to OneRiot, via VentureBeat…

You can try such a search of tweeted links already at OneRiot. The upstart social-network search engine crawls Twitter, follows the links, and creates a database of the content of Web pages and videos linked from recent Twitter updates. Right now, Thursday afternoon, a search for “Star Trek” returns as top result a hilarious Onion parody news report.

And Google announces the “Wonder Wheel of Suggestions” making its search filters far more powerful for the mainstream. These “Search Experiments” will be announced today..

So that begs the question… Has innovation gone full circle on the web? Is search the new big thing? Again… What do you think? Let us know in the comments!

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