Interesting news item about the future of search.
Analyst Sue Feldman presented her views to the Enterprise Search Summit West.
Key points:

A convergence of tools in search.
Move away from today’s transaction based platform towards a knowledge platform.
Improved capibilities in terms of concepts, relationships, and modes of communication, including speech
One problem that needs solving is [...]

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With Yahoo’s stock nearing its 52 week low, conspiracy theorists might think that the Financial Times report about the resumption of merger talks between AOL and Yahoo was based on news leaked with the intention of boosting Yahoo and/or TimeWarner shares. However, it appears that discussions which began to fend off Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:

Yahoo Debuts APT, Its “Unified Digital Advertising Platform”At various times it’s been called AMP or APEX, but today Yahoo introduced its new “unified digital advertising platform,” which the company is [...]

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Google has launched a new labs project named In Quotes. In Quotes allows you to compare quotes between the two US Presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama.
For example, if Net neutrality is an important topic for you, just type in “neutrality” and up comes quotes from each candidate that you can scan through:
Click [...]

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At various times it’s been called AMP or APEX, but today Yahoo introduced its new “unified digital advertising platform,” which the company is now calling APT. With the platform it gained through the Right Media acquisition at its core, Yahoo is positioning APT as a dynamic, open marketplace (dispensing with the term “exchange”).
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