Yahoo!

-Search engines are not about searching anymore. They are means to achieve web-mediated goals.

-Computation is merely the basis for rational and behavioral interactions.

-Upper bound on typed content reaches 700 TB. But content consumption is fragmenting: nobody owns more than 10% of the Web page views.

-Access is fragmenting as well. For example, in Facebook, you can control who can see and how much they can see of your profile

-User generated content is growing exponentially.

-Innovation in the lab of Barcelona: people put metadata in their content and this enable to build pages of results with related searches in the form of text, maps, etc.

Anna Solana