The thing is, Google isn't anymore just about "the" search. "The Google" is getting more and more interwined into the internet itself, there's hardly an aspect of the web they haven't gone to. Yahoo on the other hand has shown that forgetting about search and focusing on "other" things can be dangerous.

A new competitor to web search truly has to do something game changing.

So, my question is, in a more post-search web, will there be another Altavista or Google?

• 22 weeks ago

I'd imagine that in an enterprise scenario, there should already be other organizational communication channels established for most of the uses an enterprise would think using a twitter-like service.

I can understand need for a twitter-like service in a small organization, but for enterprises? As you pointed out, there are technological and cultural aspects, but I'd add also organizational aspects. How many people can be frank on an enterprise-level twitter, especially considering how half-hearted many company "blogs" are? I can imagine that in some enterprises communication managers are really fearing something like free and open discussion on company network. That's an employee mutiny! =)

And, really, how much "knowledge" is going on in Twitter, anyway?

• 26 weeks ago