Google executives have been writing articles on the future of search, and a new piece by vice president of engineering Alfred Spector and research scientist Franz Och has speculated on what search might be like as the clock ticks over to 2019.
They see a much larger database of information, as well as far more devices with Internet capability, as well as the dominance of cloud computing.
"Computer systems will have greater opportunity to learn from the collective behavior of billions of humans. They will get smarter, gleaning relationships between objects, nuances, intentions, meanings, and other deep conceptual information."
